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22,392 ratings1,737 reviews. The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published, Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop is edited with notes and an introduction by Norman Page in Penguin Classics.
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Apr 19, 2020 · If you’ll pardon the obvious pun, I’ve always been curious about British writer Charles Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop for one reason. Back in the day, it was published in serial format in...
Feb 7, 2012 · The Old Curiosity Shop may carry the reputation of being an old curiosity itself, and more than once it does dip too deeply into the well of sentiment (why does Little Nell die anyway?), but it has merits enough on its own to make it worth reading at least once.
Until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, no novel’s final installment attracted more enthusiastic public interest in its time than the last number of The Old Curiosity Shop, in which readers finally ascertained whether Little Nell lives or dies. It’s a funny thing.
Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) BOOK REVIEW. There is a grimness in The Old Curiosity Shop that allows it to transcend its plot issues into a valuable, if somewhat...
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The Old Curiosity Shop is one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Charles Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers reputedly stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final instalment arrived in 1841.
The Old Curiosity Shop, novel by Charles Dickens, first issued serially in 1840–41 in Dickens’s own weekly, Master Humphrey’s Clock; it was published in book form in 1841. The novel was enormously popular in its day but in a later age was scorned for its unabashed sentimentality.
