The Old Curiosity Shop

✍ Scribed by Charles Dickens

• Book ID: 111673806
• Publisher: Penguin Books; Penguin Group
• Year: 1840
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 9 MB
• Edition: Penguin Classics (2000)
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780141908052
• ASIN: B002RI9Y4G

✦ Synopsis

Genre: Fiction, Literature

ebook, 545 pages

Paperback, 574 pages

Published: 1840

Edition: Penguin Classics (2000)

Introduction and Notes by: Norman Page (2000)

A Dickens Chronology by: Stephen Wall (1995)

With original illustrations by George Cattermole, Hablot K. Browne (‘Phiz’), Daniel Maclise and Samuel Williams

The story of Little Nell and her "tragedy of sorrows," told in a blend of realism and fairy-tale

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.

Jun 2023 - epub format revised and verified by zardox (no changes to book content).