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The Old Curiosity Shop is the fourth novel by English author Charles Dickens; being one of his two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers reputedly stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final ...
The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1934 British drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Elaine Benson, Ben Webster and Hay Petrie. [1] It is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop.
Dick Swiveller by 'Kyd' (1910). Richard "Dick" Swiveller is a fictional character in the 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens.Initially a comical accessory to the antagonists in the novel, he undergoes a transformation, becoming a key helpmate bridging the depiction of the main characters that are either mostly villainous or goodly in nature.
Mister Quilp (also known as The Old Curiosity Shop) is a 1975 British musical film directed by Michael Tuchner and starring Anthony Newley, David Hemmings and Jill Bennett. [1] It is based on the 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens .
Sampson Brass by 'Kyd' (1890). Sampson Brass is a fictional character in the 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens.He is a corrupt attorney who affects feeling for his clients, whom he then cheats.
Nell comforts her grandfather - illustration by George Goodwin Kilburne. In the novel Nell Trent is a beautiful and virtuous young girl of "not quite fourteen". An orphan, she lives with her maternal grandfather (whose name is never revealed) in his shop of odds and ends, the Old Curiosity Shop of the title.
Nubbles, Kit Shop boy at the Curiosity Shop owned by Nell's grandfather and is devoted to Nell. Kit lives at home with his widowed mother, his brother Jacob, and baby brother. Kit is later hired by the Garlands and is wrongly charged with theft by Brass. At the end of the novel we find Kit has married Barbara in The Old Curiosity Shop.
The Old Curiosity Shop is a Charles Dickens novel. It may also refer to several adaptations of the novel, including: The Old Curiosity Shop (1911 film) The Old Curiosity Shop (1914 film) The Old Curiosity Shop (1921 film) The Old Curiosity Shop (1934 film) The Old Curiosity Shop (1975 film) The Old Curiosity Shop (TV series)