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Little Nell is a 14-year-old girl with a heart of gold raised by her kind, secretive grandfather. He runs an antique shop, and borrows significant sums of money from Mr. Quilp, the moneylender. No one knows what the grandfather does with the money, but he is thought to be rich and increasing his assets. Then the secret comes out: the old man is a gambler, he hopes to secure the future of his beloved granddaughter by winning a fortune. That, of course, never happens. The grandfather keeps losing, gambling the money away every night and sinking deeper in debt. When Mr. Quilp finds out where his money is going, he takes the shop from the old man, and Little Nell and her grandfather flee from London. They live as beggars and travel mostly on foot, Little Nell leading the way and taking care of her devastated grandfather who becomes a weak, childlike creature unable to think for himself.
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Fiction, Girls, Gamblers, Grandfathers, Antique dealers, Grandparent and child, Loss (Psychology), Gambling, Social life and customs, Translations into Russian, Classic Literature, Literature, Large type books, General, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, England, fiction, Antique dealers, fiction, Grandparents, fiction, History, Manners and customs, Old curiosity shop (Dickens, Charles), Fiction, family life, general, Didactic fiction, Fiction, general, Children's fiction, Great britain, fiction, Social conditions, Fiction, family life, Poor, Grands-parents et enfants, Romans, nouvelles, Antiquaires, Grands-pères, Joueurs (Jeux de hasard), Filles, Debt, Poverty, Children, DeathPeople
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)Times
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The Old Curiosity Shop
1997, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
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The old curiosity shop
1988, Reader's Digest, Reader's Digest Association, Incorporated, The
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The Old Curiosity Shop
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The Old Curiosity Shop was one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, which lasted from 1840 to 1841. The Old Curiosity Shop was printed as a separate book in 1841.
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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.
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