The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens .. 1988 - - Illustrated by Phiz

The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens -- 1988 - - Illustrated by Phiz


I will be listing a few of these Classic books from The Readers Digest - The World's Best Reading Series.  I got these books, one at a time when they were issued.  Since I was working at the time, the books were placed on a shelf in the glass enclosed bookcase.  Needless to say, for the most part, they just sat forgotten and not read at the time and the left for a rainy day to read never happened.  Now they need to find new homes and someone who can take the time to sit down and enjoy them. 

Book is in excellent condition, has been on a book shelf entire time I have owned.  Only goof was leaving a book mark in the lower part of a page and now it shows on the bottom edge of the book.  See pictures, other than that, the book looks like it came right out of the shipping box. 

This edition was issued in 1988 and was illustrated by Hablot K. Borwne ("Phiz"), George Cattermole and Others, the Afterward was by George Gissing.  The original insert from Readers Digest is also included with the book. 

The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published. 

Little Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfless devotion. But when they are unable to pay their debts to the stunted, lecherous and demonic money-lender Daniel Quilp, the shop is seized and they are forced to flee, thrown into a shadowy world in which there seems to be no safe haven. Dickens's portrayal of the innocent, tragic Nell made The Old Curiosity Shop an instant bestseller that captured the hearts of the nation, even as it was criticised for its sentimentality by figures such as Oscar Wilde. Yet alongside the story's pathos are some of Dickens's greatest comic and grotesque creations: the ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller, the mannish lawyer Sally Brass, the half-starved 'Marchioness' and the lustful, loathsome Quilp himself. 

Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language, whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012. His most famous books, including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers, have been adapted for stage and screen and read by millions. 

525 pages of intrigue to keep you reading page after page. 

These books never came with dust jackets.  The size of the book is 6 1/4 inches by 9 1/4 inches and almost 2 inches thick. 

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