TY  - BOOK
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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - The old curiosity shop /
DA  - 2000.
CY  - London ;
CY  - New York :
AU  - Dickens, Charles,
AU  - Page, Norman.
CN  - PR4566.A2
CN  - PR4566.A2
PB  - Penguin Books,
PP  - London ;
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2000.
ID  - 331402
KW  - Girls
KW  - Gamblers
KW  - Grandfathers
KW  - Antique dealers
KW  - Loss (Psychology)
KW  - Grandparent and child
SN  - 9780140437423 (pbk.)
SN  - 0140437428 (pbk.)
TI  - The old curiosity shop /
ER  -