Master Humphrey's Clock
The Old Curiosity Shop
About this book
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.
Master Humphrey's Clock · 2 books
In publication order- Barnaby Rudge 1840
- The Old Curiosity Shop 1840 This book
Subjects
- antiquaires
- antique dealers
- antique dealers -- fiction
- antique dealers, fiction
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- children
- children's fiction
- children's stories
- classic literature
- death
- debt
- didactic fiction
- domestic fiction
- england -- fiction
- england, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction, general
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- filles
- gamblers
- gamblers -- fiction
- gambling
- general
- girls
- girls -- fiction
- grandfathers
- grandfathers -- fiction
- grandparent and child
- grandparent and child -- fiction
- grandparents, fiction
- grands-parents et enfants
- grands-pères
- great britain, fiction
- history
- joueurs (jeux de hasard)
- literature
- long now manual for civilization
- loss (psychology)
- manners and customs
- old curiosity shop (dickens, charles)
- poor
- poverty
- romans, nouvelles
- social conditions
- social life and customs
- translations into russian