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Book Synopsis The Old Curiosity Shop & Great Expectations (Annotated) by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop & Great Expectations (Annotated) written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two classics in one! Wonderfully spread out in one, annotated and illustrated, compact volume. Many vintage books are increasingly scarce and expensive. We published this volume in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a biography of the author.Includes: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)Great Expectations (1867 edition
Book Synopsis The Old Curiosity Shop (Annotated) by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop (Annotated) written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-29 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel Charles Dickens. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London.
Book Synopsis The Old Curiosity Shop Annotated Book With Teacher Edition by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop Annotated Book With Teacher Edition written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-05 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop follows a young girl named Nell Trent, who lives in an antique shop with her grandfather. Although her grandfather is a good man, he is preoccupied with keeping Nell away from her brother Fred and his gambling obsession. To that end, he recklessly borrows money so that he can gamble more and to supplement his income.But Nell's grandfather never pays his money back, which attracts the attention of a young man named Daniel Quilp, who continues to lend Nell's grandfather money despite knowing that he would not be able to pay it back. After all, he wants to marry Nell and he thinks that lending her grandfather money will help him do that.After Nell refuses to marry Quilp, Quilp and Nell's grandfather's other creditors go on the offensive. They start to hound her grandfather for their money, which causes Nell and her grandfather to go on the run. For much of the time, they are unable to find refuge, as his creditors are seemingly at every corner, waiting for the two to come out of hiding. Eventually, though, the two find safety from his creditors.
Book Synopsis The Old Curiosity Shop by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Curiosity Shop:Annotated by Charles Dickens Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Store, the archetypal Victorian melodrama, is edited with notes and an introduction by Norman Web page in Penguin Classics. Small Nell Trent lives in the peaceful gloom of the run-down curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares selflessly. However, when they cannot repay their debts to the stunted, passionate, and demonic money-loan provider Daniel Quilp, the store is seized. They are forced to flee, thrusting them into a shadowy world where there appears to be no haven. Dickens's portrayal of the innocent, tragic Nell made The Aged Curiosity Shop an immediate bestseller that captured the hearts of the country, even though statistics such as Oscar Wilde criticized it for its sentimentality. However, along with the story's pathos are some of Dickens's most memorable comic and grotesque creations: the ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller, the mannish lawyer Sally Brass, the half-starved Marchioness,' and the lustful, loathsome Quilp himself. This book includes an author biography as well as a table of contents that is linked to each chapter (Kindle edition). We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high-quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Book Synopsis The Old Curiosity Shop by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published, Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop is edited with notes and an introduction by Norman Page in Penguin Classics.
Book Synopsis The Old Curiosity Shop by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop written by Charles Dickens and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Curiosity Shop is one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Charles Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from 1840 to 1841.
Book Synopsis The Old Curiosity Shop (Original 1941 Edition): Annotated by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop (Original 1941 Edition): Annotated written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-18 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although The Old Curiosity Shop is one of Charles Dickens' least-known novels, it is certainly one of his most interesting. The Old Curiosity Shop follows Little Nell Trent, who lives with his grandfather in - as the title suggests - an old curiosity shop. However, their life already isn't easy and is being made harder by a man named Daniel Quilp, who is breathing down their necks and making them feel unsafe, forcing them to flee to safety. When it was released, The Old Curiosity Shop received incredibly positive reviews. Among the novels many admirers was Queen Victoria, who remarked that the book was "very interesting and cleverly written." In their review, a prominent book blogger remarked that Dickens is "an extraordinary novelist" and that this novel is extraordinary and incredibly interesting - mostly because of the book's structure.
Book Synopsis The Old Curiosity Shop Annotated by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop Annotated written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel by Charles Dickens. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London.The Old Curiosity Shop was one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, which lasted from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final instalment arrived in 1841.[1] The Old Curiosity Shop was printed in book form in 1841.Queen Victoria read the novel in 1841, finding it "very interesting and cleverly written.
Book Synopsis Great Expectations by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The orphaned Pip is serving as a blacksmith's apprentice, when an unknown benefactor supplies the means for him to be educated in London as a gentleman of "great expectations."
Book Synopsis Old Curiosity Shop [Christmas Summary Classics] by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book Old Curiosity Shop [Christmas Summary Classics] written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Great Expectations by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Great Expectations: Annotated by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book Great Expectations: Annotated written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Expectations is the story of Pip, an orphan boy adopted by a blacksmith's family, who has good luck and great expectations, and then loses both his luck and his expectations. Through this rise and fall, however, Pip learns how to find happiness. He learns the meaning of friendship and the meaning of love and, of course, becomes a better person for it.The story opens with the narrator, Pip, who introduces himself and describes a much younger Pip staring at the gravestones of his parents. This tiny, shivering bundle of a boy is suddenly terrified by a man dressed in a prison uniform. The man tells Pip that if he wants to live, he'll go down to his house and bring him back some food and a file for the shackle on his leg.Pip runs home to his sister, Mrs. Joe Gragery, and his adoptive father, Joe Gragery. Mrs. Joe is a loud, angry, nagging woman who constantly reminds Pip and her husband Joe of the difficulties she has gone through to raise Pip and take care of the house. Pip finds solace from these rages in Joe, who is more his equal than a paternal figure, and they are united under a common oppression.Pip steals food and a pork pie from the pantry shelf and a file from Joe's forge and brings them back to the escaped convict the next morning. Soon thereafter, Pip watches the man get caught by soldiers and the whole event soon disappears from his young mind.Mrs. Joe comes home one evening, quite excited, and proclaims that Pip is going to "play" for Miss Havisham, "a rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house."Pip is brought to Miss Havisham's place, a mansion called the "Satis House," where sunshine never enters. He meets a girl about his age, Estella, "who was very pretty and seemed very proud." Pip instantly falls in love with her and will love her the rest of the story. He then meets Miss Havisham, a willowy, yellowed old woman dressed in an old wedding gown. Miss Havisham seems most happy when Estella insults Pip's coarse hands and his thick boots as they play.Pip is insulted, but thinks there is something wrong with him. He vows to change, to become uncommon, and to become a gentleman.Pip continues to visit Estella and Miss Havisham for eight months and learns more about their strange life. Miss Havisham brings him into a great banquet hall where a table is set with food and large wedding cake. But the food and the cake are years old, untouched except by a vast array of rats, beetles and spiders which crawl freely through the room. Her relatives all come to see her on the same day of the year: her birthday and wedding day, the day when the cake was set out and the clocks were stopped many years before; i.e. the day Miss Havisham stopped living.Pip begins to dream what life would be like if he were a gentleman and wealthy. This dream ends when Miss Havisham asks Pip to bring Joe to visit her, in order that he may start his indenture as a blacksmith. Miss Havisham gives Joe twenty five pounds for Pip's service to her and says good-bye.Pip explains his misery to his readers: he is ashamed of his home, ashamed of his trade. He wants to be uncommon, he wants to be a gentleman. He wants to be a part of the environment that he had a small taste of at the Manor House.Early in his indenture, Mrs. Joe is found lying unconscious, knocked senseless by some unknown assailant. She has suffered some serious brain damage, having lost much of voice, her hearing, and her memory. Furthermore, her "temper was greatly improved, and she was patient." To help with the housework and to take care of Mrs. Joe, Biddy, a young orphan friend of Pip's, moves into the house.The years pass quickly. It is the fourth year of Pip's apprenticeship and he is sitting with Joe at the pub when they are approached by a stranger. Pip recognizes him, and his "smell of soap," as a man he had once run into at Miss Havisham's house years before...
Book Synopsis The Old Curiosity Shop by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop written by Charles Dickens and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-20 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel by Charles Dickens. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London. The Old Curiosity Shop was one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, which lasted from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final instalment arrived in 1841. The Old Curiosity Shop was printed in book form in 1841. Queen Victoria read the novel in 1841, finding it "very interesting and cleverly written." Plot summary: 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. Convinced that the old man has stored up a large and prosperous fortune for Nell, her wastrel older brother, Frederick, convinces the good-natured but easily led Dick Swiveller to help him track Nell down, so that Swiveller can marry Nell and share her supposed inheritance with Frederick. To this end, they join forces with Quilp, who knows full well that there is no fortune, but sadistically chooses to 'help' them to enjoy the misery it will inflict on all concerned. Quilp begins to try to track Nell down, but the fugitives are not easily discovered. To keep Dick Swiveller under his eye, Quilp arranges for him to be taken as a clerk by Quilp's lawyer, Mr. Brass. At the Brass firm, Dick befriends the mistreated maidservant and nicknames her 'the Marchioness'. Nell, having fallen in with a number of characters, some villainous and some kind, succeeds in leading her grandfather to safety in a far-off village (identified by Dickens as Tong, Shropshire), but this comes at a considerable cost to Nell's health. Meanwhile, Kit, having lost his job at the curiosity shop, has found new employment with the kind Mr and Mrs Garland. Here he is contacted by a mysterious 'single gentleman' who is looking for news of Nell and her grandfather. The 'single gentleman' and Kit's mother go after them unsuccessfully, and encounter Quilp, who is also hunting for the runaways. Quilp forms a grudge against Kit and has him framed as a thief. Kit is sentenced to transportation. However, Dick Swiveller proves Kit's innocence with the help of his friend the Marchioness. Quilp is hunted down and dies trying to escape his pursuers. At the same time, a coincidence leads Mr Garland to knowledge of Nell's whereabouts, and he, Kit, and the single gentleman (who turns out to be the younger brother of Nell's grandfather) go to find her. Sadly, by the time they arrive, Nell has died as a result of her arduous journey. Her grandfather, already mentally infirm, refuses to admit she is dead and sits every day by her grave waiting for her to come back until, a few months later, he dies himself.... Charles John Huffam Dickens ( 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. ...
Download or read book Phiz written by Valerie Browne Lester and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phiz - real name Hablot Knight Browne - worked together with Charles Dickens for over 20 years, illustrating some of the best known characters in English literature. This book profiles the life of Phiz, which was as rich and colourful as any of Dickens' own creations.
Book Synopsis The Old Curiosity Shop (Annotated Student and Teacher Edition) by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop (Annotated Student and Teacher Edition) written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Value: This product contains both the original text AND a 30 page collection of annotations, information, and resources!Whether you are reading for fun or seeking a new level of understanding, you will benefit immensely from this Special Annotated Student and Teacher Edition!Added to this special edition of a classic book is a special section which contains a resource guide with activities for understanding, as well as guided questions for major aspects of the book. This resource is ideal for a quick read to prepare you for an exam or help you finish a homework assignment. This resource contains information specifically aimed at assisting readers in understanding the classic text, preparing students for examinations, or providing lesson plans for teachers. This book is ideal for readers in high school, college, or those individuals who are seeking an easier understanding of a classic text.
Book Synopsis The Old Curiosity Shop by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOPThe Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and virtuous girl of "not quite fourteen". Orphaned, she lives with her maternal grandfather, who remains nameless, in the middle of the junk shop of her antique shop. His existence is solitary, almost exclusively devoted to the love of the old man and to the care that he lavishes on him; without a real companion or companion of her age, her only friend is Kit, the young employee of the shop to whom she tries to teach writing.Secretly obsessed by the fear that his granddaughter will die in poverty like his parents, the old man leads a secret life and is absent every night. It is only after fifty pages that the mystery of his absences is revealed: he plays large sums of money cards and, to guarantee his stakes, regularly borrows from a usurer, the dwarf Daniel Quilp who, deformed and sadistic, terrorizes his entourage, including his young wife, and practices sarcasm and irony with virtuosity. Soon, all the goods of the old man are pledged and Quilp takes possession of the place.The ruined old antiquarian sinks into a deep melancholy and his life remains in abeyance for long months, while Quilp and his henchman Sampson Brass, a man of recognized but servile law, camp on the spot. Nell watches his grandfather day and night and, as soon as he regains some strength, is secretly decided between the two lonely to escape on the roads and live under the stars begging. Their steps, guided at first by chance alone, lead them gradually into the Midlands, following a road strewn with pitfalls and terrors, which was more or less identified.Meanwhile, convinced that the old man had amassed a fortune for his granddaughter, Nell's prodigal brother, Frederick, persuaded the na�ve Dick Swiveller to look for them so that Nell could marry him and grandfather's legacy falls into their hands. To this end, they are allied with Quilp, well aware that he has nothing to gain but that his sadism encourages us to encourage their hopes to better enjoy the distress of all.The dwarf therefore goes hunting; tracking is difficult because the fugitives leave few traces. Dick Swiveller is placed as a clerk in the Sampson Brass study, so as to keep an eye on him. There, he becomes friends with a badly-treated good-to-do, whom he nicknamed "the Marquise (the Marchioness)". For her part, the young Nell, after meeting characters, some of whom are kind and others obnoxious, manages to lead her grandfather to a peaceful and safe retreat, perhaps Tong, in Shropshire County. West Midlands. The trip, the bad weather, the privations, however, were right of her health, and the girl soon became ill.Kit, meanwhile, left without work, found a job at the excellent Mr and Mrs Garland he met randomly from the streets. He is visited by a mysterious gentleman, apparently single (a single gentleman), who wants to know what happened to Nell and the old man. The gentleman in question and Kit's mother then go looking for them. Along the way, they meet Quilp who takes Kit in awe and arranges to have him accused of theft and sentenced to deportation. Dick Swiveller, however, helped by his friend the Marquise, proves the innocence of the young man, and it is Quilp who, from now on, is chased, until, victim of an accident, he s' bogged down the Thames trying to escape his pursuers.The denouement approaches: a happy coincidence allows Mr Garland to learn where Nell and his grandfather are hiding; he goes off to find them in the company of Kit and the unmarried gentleman, the younger brother of the old man, we learn, therefore, the heroine's great-uncle. Alas, the girl has already succumbed, which denies the grandfather who, having lost his reason, spends his time sitting on the grave to moan and wait for her to come back. A few months later, he dies in turn. So ends the story of Nell Trent's antique store.
Book Synopsis Great Expectations (Classic Reprint) by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book Great Expectations (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Dickens and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Great Expectations ON the first of December, 1860, Dickens began the publica tion, in all the Year Round, of his novel. Of Great Expectations, and closed it in the number of that weekly which appeared on the third of August, His first intention, as in the case of The Old Curiosity Shop, was to write a short sketch or story for the periodical he edited. Forster had suggested to him that he should try something in his old way, - something which would recall to the public his vouthful achievements in humorous scenes and characterize tions. Dickens replied. For a little piece I have been writ ing - or am writing - for I hope to finish it to-day - such a very fine, new, and grotesque idea has opened upon me, that I begin to doubt whether I had not better cancel the little paper, md reserve the notion for a new book. You shall judge as soon as I get it printed. But it so opens out before me, that I can see the whole of a serial revolving on it, in a most singu lar and comic manner. This grotesque idea was, doubtless, the relation established between Pip and Magwitch, which might easily have been narrated in a few charming pages, such as those in which he had disposed of the genus of many other romances, in the series of essays, sketches, and portraitures of life, which he was then writing under the general title of The Uncommercial Traveller. But the idea of an innocent boy, establishing unconsciously an immense influence over the mind of a hunted felon, simply by giving him that assistance which he dared not refuse, haunted Dickens's imagination until he gathered round it a whole new world of characters and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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