Dickens .:. The old curiosity shop

Dickens, Charles,
The old curiosity shop. London, Glasgow: Collins, 1959. 510 Seiten mit einer Abbildung als Frontispiz und Literaturverzeichnis. Leinen mit Farbkopfschnitt und Schutzumschlag. 316 g

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* Introduction by B. Brimley Johnson. Etikette auf verso Vorsatzblatt "Sonderausgabe für die Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt".
Bestell-Nr.154712

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Dickens | Englische Literatur

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DICKENS said of The Old Curiosity Shop "I had it always in my fancy to surround the figure of Little Nell with grotesque and wild, but not impossible companions, and to gather about her innocent face associates as strange and uncongenial as the grim objects that are about her bed when her history is first foreshadowed." Nell's grandfather, the proprietor of the grim Old Curiosity Shop, resorts to the gaming-table in an endeavour to retrieve his fortunes. He succeeds only in exhausting his resources and is driven to borrow money from Daniel Quilp, a hideous and unscrupulous dwarf. Eventually the old man and his granddaughter are forced to flee to the country, where they endure many hardships and adventures in their search for peace and security. The novel contains many wellknown Dickensian characters. Besides the grotesque Quilp, there are his associates Sampson Brass, the villainous attorney, and his forbiddin; sister Sally; Adam Codlin and Mr. Harris (alias Short) the showman; Dick Swiveller; Mrs Jarley of " Jarley's Waxworks " fame ; Jerry with his troupe of dancing dogs; the faithful Kit Knubbles, who was devoted to Nell, and old Mr. and Mrs. Garland, the kindly couple who befriend Kit in his frantic efforts to escape the evil machinations of and so on.

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