The Old Curiosity Shop Av Charles Dickens

<p>''His characters are marvellous, his insights wonderful ... You don''t expect reality but you get something bigger and better'' Ruth Rendell<br><br><i>The Old Curiosity Shop</i> was an instant bestseller that, even while it was criticized for its sentimentality, captured the hearts of the nation with its portrayal of little Nell Trent, who is thrown into a terrifying world when her beloved grandfather is unable to pay his debts to the loathsome Quilp. Alongside the pathos of the innocent, tragic Nell are some of Dickens''s greatest characters: the ne''er-do''well Dick Swiveller, the mannish lawyer Sally Brass, the half-starved ''Marchioness'' and the lustful Quilp himself, a creation of demonic power and cruelty. <br><br>Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Norman Page</p>