Binding: Paperback
Description: 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
Title: The Old Curiosity Shop
Author(s): Dickens Charles, Norman Page, Samuel Williams
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780140437423
Pages: 608 Pages
Publication Date: 7/1/2001
Category: Classic Fiction