tailieunhanh - Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist (1838) là tiểu thuyết thứ 2 của Charles Dickens. Cuốn sách ban đầu được xuất bản ở Bentley's Miscellany làm một loại sách ra từng kỳ vào mỗi tháng, bắt đầu từ tháng 2 năm 1837 và đã tiếp tục cho đến tháng 4 năm 1839. Tiểu thuyết “Oliver Twist” viết về những cuộc phiêu lưu của nhân vật trung tâm Oliver Twist trong hành trình đi từ bất hạnh, khổ đau đến hạnh phúc, yên vui. Câu chuyện được mở dần ra theo bước chân của cậu bé mồ côi trong những cuộc phiêu lưu và tuổi. | Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Prepared and Published by Ebd Chapter 1 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. Although I am not disposed to maintain that the being born in a workhouse is in itself the most fortunate and enviable circumstance that can possibly befall a human being I do mean to say that in this particular instance it was the best thing for Oliver Twist that could by possibility have occurred. The fact is that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration a troublesome practice but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress rather unequally poised between this world and the next the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter. Now if during this brief period Oliver had been surrounded by careful grandmothers anxious aunts experienced nurses and doctors of profound wisdom he would most inevitably and indubitably have been killed in no

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