The Old Curiosity Shop | Novel | Charles Dickens

The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel Authored by Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens was an English Writer, Short Story writer, Play wright, Lecturer, Social Worker, Novelist, An Extensive Performer and he also campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.

The plot of the story of 'The Old Curiosity Shop' follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London. This story had also been published by Dickens in weekly serials with short stories. The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Nell Trent, 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. Her grandfather loves her dearly, and Nell does not complain, but she lives a lonely existence with almost no friends her own age. 

Her only friend is Kit, an honest boy employed at the shop, whom she is teaching to write. Secretly obsessed with ensuring that Nell does not die in poverty as her parents did, her grandfather attempts to provide Nell with a good inheritance through gambling at cards.He keeps his nocturnal games a secret, but borrows heavily from the evil Daniel Quilp, a malicious, grotesquely deformed, hunchbacked dwarf moneylender. In the end, he gambles away what little money they have, and Quilp seizes the opportunity to take possession of the shop and evict Nell and her grandfather. Her grandfather suffers a breakdown that leaves him bereft of his wits, and Nell takes him away to the Midlands of England, to live as beggars.....

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