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The Old Curiosity Shop Paperback - 1979

by Charles Dickens

  • Used
  • very good
  • Paperback

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Penguin Books, 1979. Later Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Mass Market. Light toning to pages form age.
Used - Very Good
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Details

  • Title The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Author Charles Dickens
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 1979
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0826607
  • ISBN 9780140054361 / 0140054367
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 5 x 7 x 1 in (12.70 x 17.78 x 2.54 cm)
  • Reading level 820
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About this book

The Old Curiosity Shop, what would become Charles Dickens’ fourth novel, was first published in 88 weekly installments in Dickens’ serial, Master Humphrey’s Clock, from April 1840 to February 1841. In a tale that survives the transcendence of time, The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of thirteen-year-old Nell Trent and her grandfather who live in The Old Curiosity Shop, a small antique and gift store. The unnamed grandfather, desperate to leave Nell in good financial standing after his death, loses The Old Curiosity Shop to a gambling problem, forcing him and young Nell to wander the countryside.

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 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.

First Edition Identification

The Old Curiosity Shop was first published in book form by Chapman & Hall in London in 1841.

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