Oliver Twist (Signet Classics)
Contributors: Edward Le Comte (Afterword)
Publisher: Signet Classics
Published: December 1, 1961
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780451523518
First sentence: AMONG OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN A CERTAIN TOWN, WHICH for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a work-house; and in this workhouse was born-on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events-the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.