The Old Curiosity Shop; Including Master Humphrey's Clock As an Appendix (English Library)

Easson, Angus; Dickens, Charles; Andrews, Malcolm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014043075X ISBN 13: 9780140430752

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1974

For the character of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, Dickens drew on a tragedy in his own life, the death at the age of seventeen of his sister-in-law Mary Hogarth. Five years later he wrote, 'the desire to be buried next her is as strong upon me now ... and I know (for I don't think there ever was love like that I bear her) that it will never diminish.'

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