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The old curiosity shop / Charles Dickens.

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ISBN	9780141199580 (pbk.)
ISBN	014119958X (pbk.)
Name	Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Title	The old curiosity shop / Charles Dickens.
Edition	New ed.
Published	London : Penguin, 2012.
Description	747 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Summary	For the character of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, Dickens drew on a tragedy in his own life, the death at the age of seventeen of his sister-in-law Mary Hogarth. Five years later he wrote, the desire to be buried next her is as strong upon me now and I know (for I don't think there ever was love like that I bear her) that it will never diminish. 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.
Reading Program Note	Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9.
Subjects	Classic fiction
	Girls -- Fiction
	Gamblers -- Fiction
	Grandfathers -- Fiction
	Antique dealers -- Fiction
	Domestic fiction
	Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
	Didactic fiction
	Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9
	England -- Social conditions -- Fiction
	England -- Fiction
Series	Penguin English Library
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Antique dealers -- Fiction . Classic fiction . Didactic fiction . Domestic fiction . England -- Fiction . England -- Social conditions -- Fiction . Gamblers -- Fiction . Girls -- Fiction . Grandfathers -- Fiction . Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction . Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9 . Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 . Series: Penguin English Library .

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