The old curiosity shop
By - Dickens, Charles , Cattermole, George , Gissing, George
Floor
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Floor 3
Published
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Penguin Books, London, 2000
ISBN 13 - 9780329259853
Book Status
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1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject
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Antique dealers Fiction
Shelf No
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7
Call Number
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823.8 DIC
Physical Description
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xxxi, 575 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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