Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated

CHAPTER I -- TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF

THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH

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 ...