Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop
Summary
Dickens's Little Nell became one of his best-known heroines when The Old Curiosity Shop was first published in 1841. Virtuous and stoic, Nell takes care of her grandfather in his gloomy shop until his gambling debts force the pair of them to flee London. They are hunted by the grotesque and villainous moneylender Quilp and Nell's own worthless brother, Fred, who wrongly believes that their grandfather has a hidden fortune. Through a kaleidoscopic round of people and events, Nell and her grandfather eventually reach a safe refuge, although neither of them is destined to enjoy it for long
Listen on
From the publisher
Show publisher
Joseph Conrad
G. K. Chesterton
Anne Brontë
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rudyard Kipling
From the same authors
