The Old Curiosity Shop - Oxford Worlds Classics
Charles Dickens, Elizabeth M. Brennan

New Edition

Paperback (11 Dec 2008)


Publishers Synopsis

`... holding her solitary way among a crowd of wild, grotesque companions; the only pure, fresh, youthful object in the throng.

`Little Nell cares for her grandfather in the gloomy surroundings of his curiosity shop. Reduced to poverty the pair flee London, pursued by the grotesque and vindictive Quilp. In a bizarre and shifting kaleidoscope of events and characters the story reaches its tragic climax, an ending that famously devastated the novels 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. Contrasting youth and old age, beauty and deformity, innocence and cynicism, The Old Curiosity Shop is a compelling mixture of humour and brooding meance. This edition uses the Clarendon text, the definitive edition of the novels of Charles Dickens, and includes the original illustrations.


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Book information

ISBN: 9780199538232
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date: 11 Dec 2008
Edition: New Edition
DEWEY: 823.8
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 619
Weight: 488g
Height: 195mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 39mm