Oxford World's Classics The Old Curiosity Shop, (Paperback)

from jasonlf

The Old Curiosity Shop is certainly not the best of Dickens. But it contains some of the best from across the range of light (Dick Swiveller, a genial ne'er-do-well and the Marchioness, a mistreated servant) to dark (Quilp, the demonic dwarf and Sally Brass, the cold, evil sister of a corrupt law...

from PilgrimJess

"The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of truer metal and bear the stamp of Heaven." The novel opens with orphan Nell Trent living alone with her aged grandfather, who runs the curiosity shop of the ...

from cathymoore

Having read no Dickens apart from Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol as a youngster I decided his bicentenary year was an opportunity to try some more. I chose The Old Curiosity Shop randomly knowing nothing about the characters or the story. In spite of the fact that it took me almost a month to...

from OscarWilde87

Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop explores the living conditions in Victorian London. On the one hand, there are the protagonists Nell and Kit, born into poor lower-class families and trying to make a living. On the other hand, there are the upper-class citizens and future employers of Nell...

from mbmackay

An early (his fourth) novel of Dickens written in 1840 - 41. He starts with a narrator, but drops the device in Chapter 4 - one of the perils of writing in published instalments. It reminds me of OUR MUTUAL FRIEND - with the poor innocents being pure white, and the evil villains being so dark it ...