| Oliver Twist: (Charles Dickens Classics Collection) Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 1502961032 ISBN-13: 9781502961037 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $15.19 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 741.5 |
| Lexile Measure: 1060 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.03 lbs) 350 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 workhouse; 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. For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country. |
