00920nam a22001337a 4500082001000000100002100010245004400031260002600075300003200101505002200133520055500155650002600710700005000736  a823.8  aDickens, Charles  aThe Old Curiosity ShopcCharles Dickens  aLondonbLongmanc1964  axii,226 Pagesb19x11 cmbHB  aIncludes Glossary  aWith an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the novel was being serialised, many of them wrote to him about her fate.  aEnglandaGrandfathers  aAbbridgement and Introduction By Bell, Anthea