The Old Curiosity Shop Annotated Book With Teacher Edition

Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop follows a young girl named Nell Trent, who lives in an antique shop with her grandfather. Although her grandfather is a good man, he is preoccupied with keeping Nell away from her brother Fred and his gambling obsession. To that end, he recklessly borrows money so that he can gamble more and to supplement his income.But Nell's grandfather never pays his money back, which attracts the attention of a young man named Daniel Quilp, who continues to lend Nell's grandfather money despite knowing that he would not be able to pay it back. After all, he wants to marry Nell and he thinks that lending her grandfather money will help him do that.After Nell refuses to marry Quilp, Quilp and Nell's grandfather's other creditors go on the offensive. They start to hound her grandfather for their money, which causes Nell and her grandfather to go on the run. For much of the time, they are unable to find refuge, as his creditors are seemingly at every corner, waiting for the two to come out of hiding. Eventually, though, the two find safety from his creditors.

"Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop follows a young girl named Nell Trent, who lives in an antique shop with her grandfather. Although her grandfather is a good man, he is preoccupied with keeping Nell away from her brother Fred and his gambling obsession. To that end, he recklessly borrows money so that he can gamble more and to supplement his income.But Nell's grandfather never pays his money back, which attracts the attention of a young man named Daniel Quilp, who continues to lend Nell's grandfather money despite knowing that he would not be able to pay it back. After all, he wants to marry Nell and he thinks that lending her grandfather money will help him do that.After Nell refuses to marry Quilp, Quilp and Nell's grandfather's other creditors go on the offensive. They start to hound her grandfather for their money, which causes Nell and her grandfather to go on the run. For much of the time, they are unable to find refuge, as his creditors are seemingly at every corner, waiting for the two to come out of hiding. Eventually, though, the two find safety from his creditors."

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The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel by Charles Dickens. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London.The Old Curiosity Shop was one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, which lasted from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final instalment arrived in 1841.[1] The Old Curiosity Shop was printed in book form in 1841.Queen Victoria read the novel in 1841, finding it "very interesting and cleverly written.

A whole generation, on either side of the Atlantic, used to fall sobbing at the name of Little Nell, which will hardly bring tears to the eyes of any one now, though it is still apparent that the child was imagined with real feelings, and her sad little melodrama was staged with sympathetic skill. When all is said against the lapses of taste and truth, the notion of the young girl wandering up and down the country with her demented grandfather, and meeting good and evil fortune with the same devotion, till death overtakes her, is something that must always touch the heart. It is preposterously overdone, yes, and the author himself falls into pages of hysterical rhythm, which once moved people, when he ought to have been writing plain, straight prose; yet there is in all a sense of the divinity in common and humble lives, which is the most precious quality of literature, as it is almost the rarest, and it is this which moves and consoles. It is this quality in Dickens which Tolstoy prizes and accepts as proof of his great art, and which the true critic must always set above any effect of literary mastery. "The Old Curiosity Shop" makes strong appeal to a youthful imagination, and contains little that is beyond its scope. Dickens's sentiment, however it may distress the mature mind of our later day, is not unwholesome, and, at all events in this story, addresses itself naturally enough to feelings unsubdued by criticism. His quality of picturesqueness is here seen at its best, with little or nothing of that melodrama which makes the alloy of "Nicholas Nickleby" and "Oliver Twist" —to speak only of the early books.

The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published, Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop is edited with notes and an introduction by Norman Page in Penguin Classics.

The Old Curiosity Shop is one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Charles Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final installment arrived in 1841.[1] The Old Curiosity Shop was printed in book form in 1841.

Little Nell Trent lives alone with her aged grandfather, who runs an old curiosity shop. The grandfather, Little Nell's mother's father, has two obsessions. One is keeping Little Nell away from her brother, Fred, a drunken profligate. The other is a burning desire to gamble. Hoping to provide a fortune for the little girl, the old man gambles away every penny he can get. Not content with using the income of the curiosity shop, the old man borrows money recklessly. One of the old man's creditors is an ugly, misshapen, cruel dwarf named Quilp. The husband of a pretty but browbeaten young woman, Quilp plots to ruin the old man and someday marry Little Nell, who is only fourteen years old. Having discovered the old man's passion for gambling by forcing his wife to spy on Little Nell, Quilp is soon able to take over the old curiosity shop by due process of law. Little Nell and her grandfather leave during the night and start an aimless journey from London to western England.

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel by Charles Dickens. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London.The Old Curiosity Shop was one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, which lasted from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final instalment arrived in 1841. The Old Curiosity Shop was printed in book form in 1841.Queen Victoria read the novel in 1841, finding it "very interesting and cleverly written."