The Old Curiosity Shop
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AuthorДиккенс Чарльз
"The Old Curiosity Shop" is a blend of realistic narrative and fairy tale with elements of gothic, featuring peculiar, strange, and grotesque characters, and dark secrets. The novel about Nell, a little girl of "endlessly sweet temper," her grandfather, a card-playing dreamer gone mad, and the cruel dwarf usurer Quilp who pursues them, raises the eternal theme of the struggle between good and evil. One of Charles Dickens' most touching novels.