The Old Curiosity Shop

Description

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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Other Editions

• The Old Curiosity ShoppaperbackCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform2017-06-27
• The old curiosity shopChapman and Hall1876-01-01
• NellyH.A.M. Roelants1881-01-01
• The old curiosity shopHodder and Stoughton1913-01-01
• Old curiosity shopChapman & Hall1930-01-01
• The old curiosity shopOxford University Press1960-01-01