![]() ![]() Eventually they reach a safe pasture with a kind gentleman and think their troubles may be over, but heart-breaking tragedy strikes. Grandfather’s mind begins to wander, and he leans even more for help on Nell, who herself is feeling ill and weak. Provoking an unprecedented outpouring of public grief when it was first published, it follows the story of Little Nell and her feckless grandfather. Pursued across England, their adventures lead them through poverty stricken city areas where several destitute people offer them aid on their way, into the countryside where they meet the strange, colorful, and sometimes menacing characters for which Dickens is so well known. Death, innocence, sacrifice and corruption The Old Curiosity Shop is vintage Dickens. Little Nell Trent and her Grandfather are the main characters, who secretly set off from their home under cover of night, to escape the wicked dwarf Quilp. ![]() Written in the years 1840 to 1841, when Dickens was twenty-eight years old, this is a ‘Road’ tale in the very best tradition. ![]() Download cover art Download CD case insert The Old Curiosity Shop (version 2) The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens, Norman Page (Editor), Golgotha Press 3.79 20,927 ratings1,591 reviews The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published, Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop is edited with notes and an introduction by Norman Page in Penguin Classics. ![]()
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