Oliver Twist is a novel by Charles Dickens that portrays the harsh conditions face by an orphan named Oliver in a workhouse, then to a notorious criminal gang in London, and finally to his discovery of the great kindness of a certain affluent gentleman.

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I: Treats of the Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born and of the Circumstances Attending His Birth

II: Treats of Oliver Twist’s Growth, Education, and Board

III: Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting a Place Which Would Not Have Been a Sinecure

IV: Oliver, Being Offered Another Place, Makes His First Entry Into Public Life

V: Oliver Mingles with New Associates. Going to a Funeral for the First Time, He Forms an Unfavourable Notion of His Master’s Business

VI: Oliver, Being Goaded by the Taunts of Noah, Rouses Into Action, and Rather Astonishes Him

VII: Oliver Continues Refractory

VIII: Oliver Walks to London. He Encounters on the Road a Strange Sort of Young Gentleman

IX: Containing Further Particulars Concerning the Pleasant Old Gentleman, and His Hopeful Pupils

X: Oliver Becomes Better Acquainted with the Characters of His New Associates; and Purchases Experience at a High Price. Being a Short, but Very Important Chapter, in This History

XI: Treats of Mr. Fang the Police Magistrate; and Furnishes a Slight Specimen of His Mode of Administering Justice

XII: In Which Oliver Is Taken Better Care of Than He Ever Was Before. And in Which the Narrative Reverts to the Merry Old Gentleman and His Youthful Friends

XIII: Some New Acquaintances Are Introduced to the Intelligent Reader, Connected with Whom Various Pleasant Matters Are Related, Appertaining to This History

XIV: Comprising Further Particulars of Oliver’s Stay at Mr. Brownlow’s, with the Remarkable Prediction Which One Mr. Grimwig Uttered Concerning Him, When He Went Out on an Errand

XV: Showing How Very Fond of Oliver Twist, the Merry Old Jew and Miss Nancy Were

XVI: Relates What Became of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimed by Nancy

XVII: Oliver’s Destiny Continuing Unpropitious, Brings a Great Man to London to Injure His Reputation

XVIII: How Oliver Passed His Time in the Improving Society of His Reputable Friends

XIX: In Which a Notable Plan Is Discussed and Determined On

XX: Wherein Oliver Is Delivered Over to Mr. William Sikes

XXI: The Expedition

XXII: The Burglary

XXIII: Which Contains the Substance of a Pleasant Conversation Between Mr. Bumble and a Lady; and Shows That Even a Beadle May Be Susceptible on Some Points

XXIV: Treats on a Very Poor Subject. But Is a Short One, and May Be Found of Importance in This History

XXV: Wherein This History Reverts to Mr. Fagin and Company

XXVI: In Which a Mysterious Character Appears Upon the Scene; and Many Things, Inseparable from This History, Are Done and Performed

XXVII: Atones for the Unpoliteness of a Former Chapter; Which Deserted a Lady, Most Unceremoniously

XXVIII: Looks After Oliver, and Proceeds with His Adventures

XXIX: Has an Introductory Account of the Inmates of the House, to Which Oliver Resorted

XXX: Relates What Oliver’s New Visitors Thought of Him

XXXI: Involves a Critical Position

XXXII: Of the Happy Life Oliver Began to Lead with His Kind Friends

XXXIII: Wherein the Happiness of Oliver and His Friends, Experiences a Sudden Check

XXXIV: Contains Some Introductory Particulars Relative to a Young Gentleman Who Now Arrives Upon the Scene; and a New Adventure Which Happened to Oliver

XXXV: Containing the Unsatisfactory Result of Oliver’s Adventure; and a Conversation of Some Importance Between Harry Maylie and Rose

XXXVI: 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 When Its Time Arrives

XXXVII: In Which the Reader May Perceive a Contrast, Not Uncommon in Matrimonial Cases

XXXVIII: Containing an Account of What Passed Between Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, and Mr. Monks, at Their Nocturnal Interview

XXXIX: Introduces Some Respectable Characters with Whom the Reader Is Already Acquainted, and Shows How Monks and the Jew Laid Their Worthy Heads Together

XL: A Strange Interview, Which Is a Sequel to the Last Chapter

XLI: Containing Fresh Discoveries, and Showing That Surprises, Like Misfortunes, Seldom Come Alone

XLII: An Old Acquaintance of Oliver’s, Exhibiting Decided Marks of Genius, Becomes a Public Character in the Metropolis

XLIII: Wherein Is Shown How the Artful Dodger Got Into Trouble

XLIV: The Time Arrives for Nancy to Redeem Her Pledge to Rose Maylie. She Fails

XLV: Noah Claypole Is Employed by Fagin on a Secret Mission

XLVI: The Appointment Kept

XLVII: Fatal Consequences

XLVIII: The Flight of Sikes

XLIX: Monks and Mr. Brownlow at Length Meet. Their Conversation, and the Intelligence That Interrupts It

L: The Pursuit and Escape

LI: Affording an Explanation of More Mysteries Than One, and Comprehending a Proposal of Marriage with No Word of Settlement or Pin-Money