TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dickens,Charles
AU  - Becker,May Lamberton
TI  - The old curiosity shop,
AV  - PZ3.D55PR4566 O50
U1  - Fic 
PY  - 1943///
CY  - New York
PB  - Dodd, Mead & Co.
KW  - Grandparent and child
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Antique dealers
KW  - Grandfathers
KW  - Gamblers
KW  - Girls
KW  - England
KW  - Didactic fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Domestic fiction
N2  - 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. Annotation. The story of 'Little Nell' gripped the nation when it first appeared. Described as a 'tragedy of sorrows', it tells of Nell uprooted from a secure and innocent childhood and cast into a world where evil takes many shapes, the most fascinating of which is the stunted, lecherous Quilp. He is Nell's tormenter and destroyer, and it is his demonic energy that dominates the book
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/oldcuriosityshop00dick
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL6456967M
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