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He was the William Shakespeare of the Victorian age, both writing and taking to the stage as a storyteller. This makes it easy to understand why his characters had such pronounced identities, because Dickens would mentally assume different roles whilst story telling, both on paper and when treading the boards.
As any parent or teacher will attest, it is quite necessary to exaggerate characters with gestures and voices while story telling to capture the imagination of the audience and leave no confusion about who is who. This is exactly what Dickens was doing, so that his version of the Victorian world became one of overblown polarity: villains and do-gooders, the devout and the morally fallen, the wealthy and the poor, the beautiful and the ugly, the selfish and the selfless. Those who fall ‘somewhere between’ truly are the silent majority in Dickensian Britain.
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Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
History of Collins
Life & Times
CHAPTER 1 Treats of the place where Oliver Twist was born, and of the circumstances attending his birth
CHAPTER 2 Treats of Oliver Twist’s growth, education, and board
CHAPTER 3 Relates how Oliver Twist was very near getting a place, which would not have been a sinecure
CHAPTER 4 Oliver, being offered another place, makes his first entry into public life
CHAPTER 5 Oliver mingles with new associates. Going to a funeral for the first time, he forms an unfavourable notion of his master’s business
CHAPTER 6 Oliver, being goaded by the taunts of Noah, rouses into action, and rather astonishes him
CHAPTER 7 Oliver continues refractory
CHAPTER 8 Oliver walks to London. He encounters on the road a strange sort of young gentleman
CHAPTER 9 Containing further particulars concerning the pleasant old gentleman, and his hopeful pupils
CHAPTER 10 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
CHAPTER 11 Treats of Mr. Fang the police magistrate; and furnishes a slight specimen of his mode of administering justice
CHAPTER 12 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
CHAPTER 13 Some new acquaintances are introduced to the intelligent reader, connected with whom various pleasant matters are related, appertaining to this history
CHAPTER 14 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
CHAPTER 15 Showing how very fond of Oliver Twist, the merry old Jew and Miss Nancy were
CHAPTER 16 Relates what became of Oliver Twist, after he had been claimed by Nancy
CHAPTER 17 Oliver’s destiny continuing unpropitious, brings a great man to London to injure his reputation
CHAPTER 18 How Oliver passed his time in the improving society of his reputable friends
CHAPTER 19 In which a notable plan is discussed and determined on
CHAPTER 20 Wherein Oliver is delivered over to Mr. William Sikes
CHAPTER 21 The Expedition
CHAPTER 22 The Burglary
CHAPTER 23 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
CHAPTER 24 Treats of a very poor subject. But it is a short one, and may be found of importance in this history
CHAPTER 25 Wherein this history reverts to Mr. Fagin and company
CHAPTER 26 In which a mysterious character appears upon the scene; and many things, inseparable from this history, are done and performed
CHAPTER 27 Atones for the unpoliteness of a former chapter; which deserted a lady, most unceremoniously
CHAPTER 28 Looks after Oliver, and proceeds with his adventures
CHAPTER 29 Has an introductory account of the inmates of the house, to which Oliver resorted
CHAPTER 30 Relates what Oliver’s new visitors thought of him
CHAPTER 31 Involves a critical position
CHAPTER 32 Of the happy life Oliver began to lead with his kind friends
CHAPTER 33 Wherein the happiness of Oliver and his friends, experiences a sudden check
CHAPTER 34 Contains some introductory particulars relative to a young gentleman who now arrives upon the scene; and a new adventure which happened to Oliver
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