In an abridged version of the book largely meant for younger readers, the ultimate chapter states that all members of Fagin's gang had unhappy endings similar to Monks and the Artful Dodger; and "only Charley Bates escape that fate and became a respectable citizen".
Abridgement, the act of reducing a written work, typically a book, into a shorter form
He was a prolific historical author, best known for his abridgement (still in print) of Arnold J. Toynbee's A Study of History.
He is also noted for his translation and abridgement of Rosmini's Of the Five Wounds of the Holy Church.
Before she married, Louisa Coningham had taught at the Rothsay House girls' school in Kennington and was the author of two books, 'A Poetical History of England' and 'An Abridgement of Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding: With Some Conjectures Respecting the Interference of Nature with Education'.
It was translated into English by Alexander Ross, as Abridgement of Christian Divinitie (1650).
The only other work which certainly belongs to Joseph is an abridgement of a commentary on Isaiah by Jerome (Abbreuiatio or Epitome commentarii (Sancti) Hieronymi in Isaiam), which was apparently ordered by Alcuin.
Their first dictionary was Clarence Barnhart's American College Dictionary, published in 1947, and based primarily on The New Century Dictionary, an abridgement of the Century.
The 1948 abridgement, with "incidental parts" of the text taken from the 1969 version, was the basis of the first translation into English by Hans H. Rudnick, published in hardcover by Southern Illinois University Press in 1971.