by Charles Dickens · Armada Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006915607
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«The Old Curiosity Shop» is the classic Victorian novel by Charles Dickens, published by Armada Paperbacks in paperback (128 pages, in English).
Nell Trent, a kind-hearted girl, lives with her sick grandfather in a shop of curiosities. When they cannot pay the debts owed to the moneylender Daniel Quilp, they lose it and are forced to flee; thus begins a pilgrimage through Victorian England in which the girl's innocence clashes with greed and cruelty.
Abridged edition published in 1979 in the Armada S. series; the cover announces an adaptation for the BBC.
Edition aimed at child and young readers beginning with Victorian classics.
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
