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MARC 21

The old curiosity shop
Tag	Description
020	$a9780141199580
082	$aAF DIC
100	$aDickens, Charles,$d1812-1870.
245	$aThe old curiosity shop$cCharles Dickens.
250	$aNew ed.
260	$aLondon :$bPenguin,$c2012
300	$a747 p. :$bill. ;$c20 cm.
520	$aFor 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.'" "The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters - the eloquent ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the 'Marchioness'; the mannish lawyer Sally Brass; Quilp's brow-beaten mother-in-law, and Quilp himself, the lustful, vengeful dwarf, whose demonic energy makes a vivid counterpoint to Nell's purity.
650	$aGirls$vFiction.
650	$aGamblers$vFiction.
650	$aGrandfathers$vFiction.
650	$aAntique dealers$vFiction.
650	$aDomestic fiction.
650	$aLoss (Psychology)$vFiction.
651	$aEngland$xSocial conditions$vFiction.
651	$aEngland$vFiction.
655	$aDidactic fiction.$2gsafd