num_pages: 672
description: One of Dickens's most haunting and bizarre novels, The Old Curiosity Shop is the story of "Little Nell" and her persecution by the grotesque and lecherous Quilp. It is a shifting kaleidoscope of events and characters as the story reaches its tragic climax, an ending that famously devastatedthe novel's earliest readers. Dickens blends naturalistic and allegorical styles to encompass both the actual blight of Victorian industrialization and textual echoes of Bunyan, the Romantic poets, Shakespeare, pantomine, and Jacobean tragedy. This edition uses the Clarendon text, the definitiveedition of the novels of Charles Dickens, and includes the original illustrations.
language: English
title: The Old Curiosity Shop
titlecomplete: The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford World's Classics)
characters: Mr. Chuckster, Daniel Quilp, Christopher 'Kit' Nubbles, Mrs. Betsy Quilp, Mr. Harris, Nell's grandfather, Miss Sarah ('Sally') Brass, Mr. Sampson Brass, Mr. Garland, Mr. Witherden, Barbara, Isaac List, Mr. Marton, Thomas Codlin, The single gentleman, Frederick Trent, Nell Trent, Joe Jowl, The Marchioness, Mrs. Jarley, The Bachelor, Richard 'Dick' Swiveller
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, British Literature, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Literature, Victorian, Novels
ratings_count: 21346
publisher: Oxford University Press