🎧 Includes the full unabridged audiobook (LibriVox recording) along with the ePub. Description Orphaned Oliver Twist flees a brutal workhouse only to fall into London's criminal underworld. Dickens's passionate indictment of Victorian poverty remains one of literature's most powerful social novels. Author: Charles Dickens Genre: Fiction / Novel Listen to a preview Your browser does not support audio playback.Approximately 90 seconds from the public-domain audiobook.Read an EPUB preview 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. Excerpt from the public-domain EPUB included with this bundle.
