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The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin English Library El75)
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The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin English Library El75) Mass market paperback - 1972

by Charles Dickens

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Penguin Classics, August 1972. Mass Market Paperback . Used Good/yes .
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  • Title The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin English Library El75)
  • Author Charles Dickens
  • Binding Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used Good
  • Pages 720
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classics, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date August 1972
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 237016
  • ISBN 9780140430752 / 014043075X
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.81 x 5.09 x 1.16 in (19.84 x 12.93 x 2.95 cm)
  • Reading level 820
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, England
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 72192922
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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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.

From the publisher

Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors’ prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years’ formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

First Edition Identification

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

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