In the workhouse of a provincial town seventy miles from London a woman with unknown origin gives birth to a boy and dies. The child is named Oliver Twist and put into the workhouse orphanage. When he is nine Oliver gets transferred to the workhouse itself by Mr. Bumble, the beadle. The little Twist dares to ask for more gruel on behalf of the other half-starved children and the authorities decide to put him to …showed first 75 words of 517 total…

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