Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3)
By Dickens, Charles
Classic work by Dickens, Charles.
Table of Contents
WHEREIN OLIVER IS DELIVERED OVER TO MR. WILLIAM SIKES. WHEN Oliver awoke in the morning he was a good deal surprised to find that a new pair of shoes with strong thick soles had b...
THE EXPEDITION. IT was a cheerless morning when they got into the street, blowing and raining hard, and the clouds looking dull and stormy. The night had been very wet, for large ...
THE BURGLARY. “HALLO!” cried a loud, hoarse voice, directly they had set foot in the passage. “Don’t make such a row,” said Sikes, bolting the door. “Shew a glim, Toby.” “Aha! m...
WHICH CONTAINS THE SUBSTANCE OF A PLEASANT CONVERSATION BETWEEN MR. BUMBLE AND A LADY; AND SHEWS THAT EVEN A BEADLE MAY BE SUSCEPTIBLE ON SOME POINTS. THE night was bitter...
TREATS OF A VERY POOR SUBJECT, BUT IS A SHORT ONE, AND MAY BE FOUND OF IMPORTANCE IN THIS HISTORY. IT was no unfit messenger of death that had disturbed the quiet of the matron’s ...
WHEREIN THIS HISTORY REVERTS TO MR. FAGIN AND COMPANY. WHILE these things were passing in the country workhouse, Mr. Fagin sat in the old den—the same from which Oliver had been r...
IN WHICH A MYSTERIOUS CHARACTER APPEARS UPON THE SCENE, AND MANY THINGS INSEPARABLE FROM THIS HISTORY ARE DONE AND PERFORMED. THE old man had gained the street corner befo...
ATONES FOR THE UNPOLITENESS OF A FORMER CHAPTER, WHICH DESERTED A LADY MOST UNCEREMONIOUSLY. AS it would be by no means seemly in an humble author to keep so mighty a personage as...
LOOKS AFTER OLIVER, AND PROCEEDS WITH HIS ADVENTURES. “WOLVES tear your throats!” muttered Sikes, grinding his teeth. “I wish I was among some of you; you’d howl the hoarser for i...
HAS AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE TO WHICH OLIVER RESORTED, AND RELATES WHAT THEY THOUGHT OF HIM. IN a handsome room—though its furniture had rather the air ...
INVOLVES A CRITICAL POSITION. “WHO’S that?” inquired Brittles, opening the door a little way, with the chain up, and peeping out, shading the candle with his hand. “Open the door...
OF THE HAPPY LIFE OLIVER BEGAN TO LEAD WITH HIS KIND FRIENDS. OLIVER’S ailings were neither slight nor few. In addition to the pain and delay attendant upon a broken limb, his exp...
WHEREIN THE HAPPINESS OF OLIVER AND HIS FRIENDS EXPERIENCES A SUDDEN CHECK. SPRING flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in ...
CONTAINS SOME INTRODUCTORY PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO NOW ARRIVES UPON THE SCENE, AND A NEW ADVENTURE WHICH HAPPENED TO OLIVER. IT was almost too much h...
CONTAINING THE UNSATISFACTORY RESULT OF OLIVER’S ADVENTURE, AND A CONVERSATION OF SOME IMPORTANCE BETWEEN HARRY MAYLIE AND ROSE. WHEN the inmates of the house, attracted b...
IS A VERY SHORT ONE, AND MAY APPEAR OF NO GREAT IMPORTANCE IN ITS PLACE, BUT IT SHOULD BE READ NOTWITHSTANDING, AS A SEQUEL TO THE LAST, AND A KEY TO ONE THAT WILL FOLLOW W...
IN WHICH THE READER, IF HE OR SHE RESORT TO THE FIFTH CHAPTER OF THIS SECOND BOOK, WILL PERCEIVE A CONTRAST NOT UNCOMMON IN MATRIMONIAL CASES. MR. BUMBLE sat in the workho...