The Old Curiosity Shop (Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.), #209) (Cleartype Classic S.) (Classics (Prebound))

by Charles Dickens

Norman Page (Notes), Daniel Maclise (Illustrator), George Cattermole (Illustrator), Hablot K. Browne (Illustrator), and Samuel Williams (Illustrator)

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'His characters are marvellous, his insights wonderful ... You don't expect reality but you get something bigger and better' Ruth Rendell

The Old Curiosity Shop was an instant bestseller that, even while it was criticized for its sentimentality, captured the hearts of the nation with its portrayal of little Nell Trent, who is thrown into a terrifying world when her beloved grandfather is unable to pay his debts to the loathsome Quilp. Alongside the pathos of the innocent, tragic Nell are some of Dickens's greatest characters: the ne'er-do'well Dick Swiveller, the mannish lawyer Sally Brass, the half-starved 'Marchioness' and the lustful Quilp himself, a creation of demonic power and cruelty.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Norman Page

  • ISBN10 0140437428
  • ISBN13 9780140437423
  • Publish Date 25 January 2001 (first published December 1951)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 10 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics