TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dickens,Charles
AU  - Page,Norman
TI  - The old curiosity shop
SN  - 0140437428
AV  - PR 4566 .A2  P34 2000
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Girls
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Gamblers
KW  - Grandfathers
KW  - Antique dealers
KW  - Loss (Psychology)
KW  - Grandparent and child
KW  - England
KW  - Didactic fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xxx)
N2  - The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. 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
ER  -