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The old curiosity shop

Author: Charles Dickens; Norman Page; et al
Publisher: London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2000.
Series: Penguin classics
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters-the eloquent ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Didactic fiction., Domestic fiction.
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Charles Dickens; Norman Page; et al
ISBN: 0140437428 9780140437423
OCLC Number: 48398990
Description: xxxi, 575 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Series Title: Penguin classics
Responsibility: edited with an introduction and notes by Norman Page ; with original illustrations by George Cattermole ... [et al.].

Abstract:

The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters-the eloquent ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the "Marchioness"; the mannish lawyer Sally Brass; Quilp's brow-beaten mother-in-law; and Quilp himself, the lustful, vengeful dwarf, whose demonic energy makes a vivid counterpoint to Nell's purity.

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