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The Old Curiosity Shop DVD/Book Set
Expected Availability: 12/17/2009
List $27.98
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DVD Based on Dickens classic novel The Old Curiosity Shop tells the tale of Little Nell Trent who lives with her doting grandfather in his London shop known as The Old Curiosity Shop, unaware that her grandfather has a ruinous gambling addiction that has left them nearly penniless and on the run from a loan shark. The pair fall in with a number of colorful characters, some villainous and some affectionate in a tragic and heartbreaking journey. Book The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters-the eloquent ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the "Marchioness"; the mannish lawyer Sally Brass; Quilp's brow-beaten mother-in-law; and Quilp himself, the lustful, vengeful dwarf, whose demonic energy makes a vivid counterpoint to Nell's purity.
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