The Old Curiosity Shop; Including Master Humphrey's Clock As an Appendix (English Library)

by Charles Dickens (Author), Angus Easson (Author), Malcolm Andrews (Author), Charles Dickens (Author), Malcolm Andrews (Author), Charles Dickens (Author), Angus Easson (Author), Charles Dickens (Author)

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  Paperback
  1974

  $3.49

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.49

  The classic Dickens tale of Nell Trent and her grandfather, forced into debt andthen having to flee to the country where they face great hardships. Tragically, both Nell and her grandfather have died before his brother traces them.

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  Paperback
  1995

  $7.93

  With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cruickshank. The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the novel was being serialised, many of them wrote to him about her fate. Dickens was conscious of the 'many friends' the novel had won for him, and 'the many hearts it turned to me when they were full of private sorrow', and it remains one of the most familiar and well-loved of his works.