The Old Curiosity Shop (The World's Best Reading)

Charles Dickens; Hablot Knight Browne; George Cattermole

ISBN 10: 0895772922 / ISBN 13: 9780895772923

Published by Reader's Digest, 1988

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0895772922I4N00

Synopsis:

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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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Old Curiosity Shop (The World's Best ...
Publisher: Reader's Digest
Publication Date: 1988
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket