Oliver Twist - Translation Classic Library (041)

Author: Charles Dickens
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: There is a town, for various reasons, it is better to keep its name anonymous, and I do not intend to invent one for it. In some public buildings there, there is also an institution that has been commonly established in all small and large towns, namely the poorhouse. The mortal man whose name appears in the title of this chapter was born in this poorhouse; the exact date is unnecessary to elaborate, as it is irrelevant to the reader anyway, at least in the current stage it is irrelevant. After the parish doctor brought that infant into this world filled with sorrow and trouble, whether he could survive and be given a name was a very questionable matter for a considerable period of time. It is likely that this biography would never have been published, or even if it were published, it would only have a few pages, but it would possess an inestimable advantage, namely becoming a model of brief yet credible biographies in the literature of all countries in the past and present...