The Adventures of Oliver Twist. by Charles Dickens. Tapa blanda - 2006

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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 work-house 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.

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The novel was first published under the title Oliver Twist, or, The Parish Boy's Progress as a three-volume book by Richard Bentley, owner of Bentley's Miscellany in 1838 (six months before the initial serialization was complete). The first edition of the novel includes 24 steel-engraved plates by George Cruikshank.