02217cam a2200349 4500 331055440 TxAuBib 20171021120000.0 110427s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011411444 9781435116481 pbk. 1435116488 pbk. TxAuBib Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. The old Curiosity Shop [TP] / by Charles Dickens ; introduction by Monica Feinberg Cohen. New York : Barnes & Noble, 2009. xvi, 557 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Barnes & Noble library of essential reading, The Includes bibliographical references. On a blustery winter afternoon in 1840, crowds flooded the docks of the New York and Boston harbors. For months, Victorian audiences had followed the orphan Little Nell’s adventures in Charles Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop as she and her beloved grandfather fled the moral and material ravages of London and the machinations of the villainous dwarf, Quilp. Calling wildly to the English ship carrying the next installment of The Old Curiosity Shop, the devoted readers breathlessly demanded the fate of the novel’s heroine. For today’s reader, The Old Curiosity Shop not only illustrates a poverty that looks uncannily familiar, but forges a heroism from the small acts of caring that make modern life meaningful. The most popular of Dickens’ novels in his lifetime, it remains both a page-turner and a masterpiece. 20171021. Grandparent and child Fiction. Grandfathers Fiction. Antique dealers Fiction. Girls Fiction. London (England) Fiction. Didactic fiction. The Barnes & Noble library of essential reading. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1110/2011411444-b.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1110/2011411444-d.html Publisher description https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1110/2011411444-s.html Sample text