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Prologue Idle reader, you can believe widiout any oadi of mine diat I would wish diis book, as die child of my brain, to be the most beautiful, the liveliest and the cleverest imaginable. But I have been unable to transgress the order of nature, by which like gives birth to like. And so, what...

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...