The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens
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Description for The Old Curiosity Shop
Paperback. One of Dickens's most haunting and bizarre novels, The Old Curiosity Shop is the story of 'Little Nell' and her persecution by the grotesque and lecherous Quilp. This edition uses the Clarendon text, the definitive edition of the novels of Charles Dickens, and includes the original illustrations, five appendices of deleted passages, and details of Little Nell on stage. Illustrator(s): "Phiz". Editor(s): Brennan, Elizabeth M. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages, illustrations by Cattermole and 'Phiz'. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 42. Weight in Grams: 488.
`... holding her solitary way among a crowd of wild, grotesque companions; the only pure, fresh, youthful object in the throng.' `Little Nell' cares for her grandfather in the gloomy surroundings of his curiosity shop. Reduced to poverty the pair flee London, pursued by the grotesque and vindictive Quilp. In a bizarre and shifting kaleidoscope of events and characters the story reaches its tragic climax, an ending that famously devastated the novel's earliest readers. Dickens blends naturalistic and allegorical styles to encompass both the actual blight of Victorian industrialization and textual echoes of Bunyan, the Romantic poets, Shakespeare, ... Read more
`... holding her solitary way among a crowd of wild, grotesque companions; the only pure, fresh, youthful object in the throng.' `Little Nell' cares for her grandfather in the gloomy surroundings of his curiosity shop. Reduced to poverty the pair flee London, pursued by the grotesque and vindictive Quilp. In a bizarre and shifting kaleidoscope of events and characters the story reaches its tragic climax, an ending that famously devastated the novel's earliest readers. Dickens blends naturalistic and allegorical styles to encompass both the actual blight of Victorian industrialization and textual echoes of Bunyan, the Romantic poets, Shakespeare, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
672
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199538232
SKU
V9780199538232
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Ref
99-3
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