The old curiosity shop - Brossura

Dickens, Charles

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0199538239 ISBN 13: 9780199538232

Casa editrice: Oxford, 2013

Riassunto

`... holding her solitary way among a crowd of wild, grotesque companions; the only pure, fresh, youthful object in the throng.'

`Little Nell' cares for her grandfather in the gloomy surroundings of his curiosity shop. Reduced to poverty the pair flee London, pursued by the grotesque and vindictive Quilp. In a bizarre and shifting kaleidoscope of events and characters the story reaches its tragic climax, an ending that famously devastated the novel's earliest readers. Dickens blends naturalistic and allegorical styles to encompass both the actual blight of Victorian industrialization and textual echoes of Bunyan, the Romantic poets, Shakespeare, pantomine and Jacobean tragedy. Contrasting youth and old age, beauty and deformity, innocence and cynicism, The Old Curiosity Shop is a compelling mixture of humour and brooding meance.

This edition uses the Clarendon text, the definitive edition of the novels of Charles Dickens, and includes the original illustrations.
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Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199538239
• ISBN 13: 9780199538232
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 672
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile