The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens author Hablot K Browne illustrator George Cruickshank illustrator Dr Keith Carabine editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Published:5th Apr '95

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The Old Curiosity Shop cover

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cruickshank.

The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success.

Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the novel was being serialised, many of them wrote to him about her fate.

Dickens was conscious of the ‘many friends’ the novel had won for him, and ‘the many hearts it turned to me when they were full of private sorrow’, and it remains one of the most familiar and well-loved of his works.

ISBN: 9781853262449

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 30mm

Weight: 375g

608 pages

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