Categorii: Neclsificat, Necatalogate
Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2008
Editura: Oxford University Press
Tip copertă: Paperback
Nr Pag: 672
ISBN 10: 0199538239
Titlu Original: The Old Curiosity Shop
ISBN: 9780199538232
Dimensiuni: l: 13cm | H: 20cm | 3.8cm | 490g
"... holding her solitary way among a crowd of wild, grotesque companions; the only pure, fresh, youthful object in the throng.''
Little Nell cares for her grandfather in the gloomy surroundings of his curiosity shop. Reduced to poverty the pair flee London, pursued by the grotesque and vindictive Quilp. In a bizarre and shifting kaleidoscope of events and characters the story reaches its tragic climax, an ending that famously devastated the novel''s earliest readers.
Dickens blends naturalistic and allegorical styles to encompass both the actual blight of Victorian industrialization and textual echoes of Bunyan, the Romantic poets, Shakespeare, pantomine and Jacobean tragedy. Contrasting youth and old age, beauty and deformity, innocence and cynicism, The Old Curiosity Shop is a compelling mixture of humour and brooding meance. This edition uses the Clarendon text, the definitive edition of the novels of Charles Dickens, and includes the original illustrations.
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