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Famous opening describing 'a certain town' and the birth of 'an item of mortality' whose name is Oliver Twist.
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From Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The novel opens with Dickens's wry, distanced narration of Oliver's birth in a workhouse to a dying unknown mother, immediately framing the orphan's precarious entry into the world.
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The narrator's ironic remark that had Oliver been surrounded by careful relations he might never have survived: 'he was a parish child--the orphan of a workhouse.'
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