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- Oliver Twist, Vol. 3 (of 3)
Chapters
16 totalOLIVER TWIST. VOL. III.
CHAPTER XXXVII. CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN MR. AND MRS. BUMBLE AND MONKS, AT THEIR NOCTURNAL INTERVIEW.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. INTRODUCES SOME RESPECTABLE CHARACTERS WITH WHOM THE READER IS ALREADY ACQUAINTED, AND SHOWS HOW MONKS AND THE JEW LAID THEIR WORTHY HEADS TOGETHER.
CHAPTER XXXIX. A STRANGE INTERVIEW, WHICH IS A SEQUEL TO THE LAST CHAPTER.
CHAPTER XL. CONTAINING FRESH DISCOVERIES, AND SHOWING THAT SURPRISES, LIKE MISFORTUNES, SELDOM COME ALONE.
CHAPTER XLI. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF OLIVER’S, EXHIBITING DECIDED MARKS OF GENIUS, BECOMES A PUBLIC CHARACTER IN THE METROPOLIS.
CHAPTER XLII. WHEREIN IS SHOWN HOW THE ARTFUL DODGER GOT INTO TROUBLE.
CHAPTER XLIII. THE TIME ARRIVES FOR NANCY TO REDEEM HER PLEDGE TO ROSE MAYLIE. SHE FAILS. NOAH CLAYPOLE IS EMPLOYED BY FAGIN ON A SECRET MISSION.
CHAPTER XLIV. THE APPOINTMENT KEPT.
CHAPTER XLV. FATAL CONSEQUENCES.
Description
In the third installment, the story drifts into the grim outskirts of London, where crumbling hovels cling to the riverbank and a long‑abandoned factory looms like a forgotten monument. Here, Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, cloaked against the relentless rain, find themselves drawn into a clandestine meeting with the enigmatic Monks, a man whose motives remain as murky as the swampy streets they tread.
The atmosphere is thick with tension, as the couple’s uneasy partnership with Monks threatens to pull them deeper into the city’s underbelly. Secrets begin to surface, and the fragile veneer of respectability that the Bumbles cling to starts to crack. Listeners will be pulled into a world of desperate ruffians, hidden agendas, and the looming threat of a storm that mirrors the turmoil gathering around our unlikely protagonists.
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en
Duration
~5 hours (295K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2014-12-04
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
Charles Dickens
1812–1870
One of the defining voices of Victorian fiction, he turned childhood hardship, sharp observation, and a gift for unforgettable characters into stories that are still loved around the world. His novels mix humor, compassion, suspense, and a fierce awareness of poverty and injustice.
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