The old curiosity shop
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"A bestseller that gripped the nation when it was first published, The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel of sharp contrasts: of life and death, youth and age, desire and innocence, humour and villainy. 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."--
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Dickens, C. (2011). The old curiosity shop. Kennebec Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. 2011. The Old Curiosity Shop. Kennebec Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, The Old Curiosity Shop. Kennebec Large Print, 2011.
MLA Citation (style guide)Dickens, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop. Kennebec Large Print, 2011.
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