A serialised classic, retold for sleep

Oliver Twist, night by night.

Oliver Twist, night by night. Workhouse dawns, London fog and long country afternoons. Dickens's 1838 original, retold in our own words, honest to its hard streets but told slow, for the very end of the day. Each night is a long, slow session of a chapter or three, read by a calm voice with long silences. Take them in order, or open the night that suits the evening. The nights are planned and on their way; every night below switches on the night it is ready. The story is Dickens's; every sentence here is our own.

Serialised classic

The Nights

The whole book, retold slowly for sleep. Each night switches on the night it is ready.

10 nights

Coming soon Night 1 — Ask for More A boy born in a workhouse, a bowl held out for a second helping, and a bed made up under a shop counter.

Oliver Twist — Night 2: The Artful Dodger

Coming soon Night 2 — The Artful Dodger Seven days on the London road, a cheerful stranger with turned-up cuffs, and a warm fire in a house full of handkerchiefs.

Oliver Twist — Night 3: The Errand with the Books

Coming soon Night 3 — The Errand with the Books A quiet house in Pentonville, a portrait on the wall, five pounds and a parcel of books, and a hand on a shoulder in a busy street.

Coming soon Night 4 — The Expedition A plan made over a low fire, a long walk out of London in the rain, and a small window at the back of a house in the country.

Coming soon Night 5 — The Quiet House A ditch, a field, a door knocked on at dawn, and two women who decide to keep him.

Oliver Twist — Night 6: Summer in the Country

Coming soon Night 6 — Summer in the Country A cottage among roses, lessons in the mornings, a fever that passes, and a face at the window that nobody else can find.

Oliver Twist — Night 7: A Strange Interview

Coming soon Night 7 — A Strange Interview A locket sold in a ruined mill, a conversation overheard through a door, and a girl who keeps an appointment on a dark staircase.

Coming soon Night 8 — London Bridge A trial watched from the gallery, a Sunday night missed, a shadow on the stairs, and steps going down to the water.

Coming soon Night 9 — The Long Night A door closed at daybreak, a man walking north with a dog, a hayrick fire in the dark, and a chase across the mud at Jacob's Island.

Oliver Twist — Night 10: Everything Told

Coming soon Night 10 — Everything Told A room where every question is finally answered, a last night in a stone cell, and a green churchyard with a white slab in it.

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