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.
The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
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