The Old Curiosity Shop Paperback / softback
by Charles Dickens
Edited by Elizabeth M. Brennan
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
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`... 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, theRomantic poets, Shakespeare, pantomine and Jacobean tragedy.
Contrasting youth and old age, beauty and deformity, innocence and cynicism, The Old Curiosity Shop is a compelling mixture of humour and brooding meance.
This edition uses the Clarendon text, the definitive edition of the novels of Charles Dickens, and includes the original illustrations.
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- Pages:672 pages, illustrations by Cattermole and `Phiz'
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:11/12/2008
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- ISBN:9780199538232
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In Stock - More than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:672 pages, illustrations by Cattermole and `Phiz'
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:11/12/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199538232