The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (684 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140860770 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 228 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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"deeply about the characters he creates that you should love, while loathing all those he has created that" according to Linda Taft. Dickens has a genius for making you care deeply about the characters he creates that you should love, while loathing all those he has created that threaten harm to them. Along the way he allows you to look at and learn about the world these characters inhabited. It is an intriguing and enlightening experience. One of his devices is to take you into the life and mind of rather plain and ordinary people who are part of the plot line. Some are near saintl. 010 Mr. Pickwick and Don Quijote While writing this I am also organizing the markings file of my first Kindle book Don Quijote, which I have perused several times. The Pickwick papers only this first time, although having been conscious of its existence forever, at least 50 years. I thought that it is just a small heap of papers to be quickly eyed through. Even starting I was not aware of its extent. But it just went on and on. Only afterwards I found out that as paper book it is in s. Not the best Dickens This was the worst Charles Dickens book I've ever read. And I've read most of them. The characters were not fully developed. The ending was predictable. It did have some redeeming qualities, so 3 stars. Also, this e-book had type-o's. I actually skipped through parts at the end, getting bored, to read what happened to my favorite characters, which was pretty much what I expected would be the outcome. I know to expect a happy ending, which I'm actually
-- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature. Nell's friend Kit Nubbles and a mysterious Single Gentleman (who turns out to be the wealthy brother of Nell's grandfather) attempt to find them but are thwarted by Quilp, who drowns while fleeing the law. The novel was enormously popular in its day but in a later age was scorned for its unabashed sentimentality. Little Nell dies before Kit and the Single Gentleman arrive, and her brokenhearted grandfather dies days later. Novel by Charles Dickens, first issued serially in 1840-41 in Dickens' own weekly,
Described as a "tragedy of sorrows", this story tells of a girl uprooted from a secure and innocent childhood. Sometimes fairytale and sometimes myth, this is Victorian life at its most bleak.. Cast into a world where evil takes many shapes, little Nell meets the stunted, lecherous Quilp, whose demonic energy dominates the book
He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work. Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. . The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and