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020			_a0192829246
082			_a823.8 _bDIC/O
100			_aDickens, Charles
245	1	0	_aThe old curiosity shop: with the original illustrations
260			_aOxford _bOxford University Press _c1995
300			_axxxix,619p.
490			_aOxford World's Classics
520			_aLittle Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfless devotion. But when they are unable to pay their debts to the stunted, lecherous and demonic money-lender Daniel Quilp, the shop is seized and they are forced to flee, thrown into a shadowy world in which there seems to be no safe haven. Dickens's portrayal of the innocent, tragic Nell made The Old Curiosity Shop an instant bestseller that captured the hearts of the nation, even as it was criticised for its sentimentality by figures such as Oscar Wilde. Yet alongside the story's pathos are some of Dickens's greatest comic and grotesque creations: the ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller, the mannish lawyer Sally Brass, the half-starved 'Marchioness' and the lustful, loathsome Quilp himself.
650			_aEnglish Literature
650	0		_aEnglish Fiction
700	0	2	_aBrennen, Elizabeth M., ed.
942			_cBK
999			_c4903 _d4903