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Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Dickens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The old curiosity shop, vol. I written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Master Humphrey's Clock written by Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Valerie Lester
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446483932
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Phiz written by Valerie Lester and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-07-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Phiz' - Hablot Knight Browne - was the great illustrator of Dickens' fiction. For over twenty-three years they worked together, and Phiz's drawings brought to life a galaxy of much-loved characters, from Mr Pickwick, Nicholas Nickleby and Mr Micawber, to Little Nell and David Copperfield. But, from the mystery of his birth onwards, Phiz himself led a life as rich as any novel. In this vivid, lively memoir - the first full biography, long-awaited by Victorian scholars - his great-great-granddaughter Valerie Browne Lester tracks the struggles of the abandoned Browne family and follows Phiz's path to marriage and fame, his travels around England and Ireland and work with Dickens, Lever, Trollope and others, and his colourful private life. Based on a mass of unpublished material, this enchanting book, packed with surprising and delicious illustrations, is a perfect present for all who love Dickens and enjoy the hidden byways of Victorian life.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486426793
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop written by Charles Dickens and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-07-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart-wrenching tale of Little Nell and her doting grandfather who flee from cold and brutal London in the 1840s to escape debt and to roam the English countryside as beggars.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Works of Charles Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
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Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kate C. Duncan
Publisher : Seattle : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295980102
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)
Download or read book 1001 Curious Things written by Kate C. Duncan and published by Seattle : University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than one hundred years, tourists and residents alike have flocked to Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, located on Seattle's waterfront. Here a mummy nicknamed Sylvester, a collection of shrunken heads from Ecuador, a two-headed calf, and a mermaid preside over walls and cases crammed with an incredible jumble of souvenirs and trinkets, intermixed with authentic Northwest Coast and Alaskan Eskimo carvings, baskets, blankets, and other artworks. The guestbook records visits by Theodore Roosevelt, Will Rogers, Jack Dempsey, Charlie Chaplin, J. Edgar Hoover, Katherine Hepburn, John Wayne, Sylvester Stallone, and Queen Marie of Rumania, among many others. Ye Olde Curiosity Shop was founded in 1899 by Joseph E. "Daddy" Standley, an Ohio-born curio collector who came to Seattle in the late 1890s during the Yukon gold rush. Although Native American material vied for space with exotica from all corners of the globe, it soon grew to be the mainstay of the shop, which became identified with the whalebones displayed outside and the "piles of old Eskimo relics" within. Also to be found were baskets, moccasins, ivory carving from Alaska, Tlingit spruce root baskets, Haida "jadeite" totem poles, masks, paddles, and other curiosities from the Northwest Coast. Indians from the Olympic Peninsula brought baskets, coming up to the back door of the shop in their canoes. Others, originally from British Columbia but now living on the flats not far from the shop, carved miniature totem poles by the hundreds and full-size poles on commission. Trading companies supplied Indian curios from the Plains, Southwest, and California. An art historian trained in the classic arts of the Northwest Coast, Kate Duncan became interested in the history of the shop when she learned that it had not only been an active participant in Seattle's 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition but had also been a major source of important Northwest Coast collections in many museums, including, among others, the Royal Ontario Museum, the George G. Heye Collection (now in the Smithsonian's Museum of the American Indian), the Washington State Museum, the Newark Museum, the Portland Art Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History. Granted full access by the present owners - grandson and great-grandson of "Daddy" Standley - to the remarkably complete archives maintained from the time the shop opened, Duncan has provided a fascinating chapter in the history of Seattle, especially in its early years, as well as a significant contribution to the literature on tourist arts and collecting. Kate Duncan, professor of art at Arizona State University, is also the author of Northern Athapaskan Art: A Beadwork Tradition, and coauthor of A Special Gift: The Kutchin Beadwork Tradition and Out of the North: The Subarctic Collection of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop : (Illustrated) Classic Edition with Original Illustrations written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-26 with total page 574 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. 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.The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London.Queen Victoria read the novel in 1841 and found it "very interesting and cleverly written".
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop written by Charles Dickens and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 grandfather in his shop of odds and ends. Secretly obsessed with ensuring that Nell does not die in poverty, 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. 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.
Author : Silas Kitto Hocking
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Her Benny written by Silas Kitto Hocking and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kirsten Mckenzie
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1783758732
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Fifteen Postcards written by Kirsten Mckenzie and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History shapes those who travel through it Following the unexplained disappearance of her parents, and in a last ditch attempt to save the antique store she has inherited from financial ruin, Sarah Lester takes on a deceased estate. Amongst the estate is a collection of vintage postcards which lead Sarah on a journey through time. Sarah is unprepared for what these postcards hint at about their reclusive former owner, and soon they complicate her life in unimaginable ways, transporting her to Victorian London, colonial New Zealand and to the British Raj in India. Sarah has to fight her twenty-first century instincts, and a century of emancipation, to survive. Traversing three continents and two centuries, where tiger hunts and ruby necklaces are irrevocably entwined with murders and mysteries, auction houses and antiquities, Sarah is drawn into the enigma that could solve her parents' disappearance, and the question of should she stay or should she go, gets harder and harder to answer, the deeper she delves into the past. Perfect for fans of the Outlander series and lovers of The Time Travelers Wife. What people are saying about Fifteen Postcards: "If history lessons had been this entertaining, I would have scored an A+!." -Andrene Low, author of the Excess Baggage series "This story is one for devotees of adventurous historical fiction and tales of plucky young women finding their feet." -Stephanie Jones, CoastFM Book Reviewer "I think the author has done a commendable job in bringing the story to life and it's obvious that she has used extensive historical research to ensure that the story always feels authentic and that's not an easy feat to pull off." -JaffaReadsToo, Book Blogger "Kirsten McKenzie has written a very unusual novel: part time travel, part historical, and part antique review. Sarah’s adventures in other times and other continents, linked together by the postcards and the antiques, are well researched and entertainingly written." -Historical Novel Society What reviewers are saying about Kirsten McKenzie: "McKenzie has done a spectacular job of combining well-researched history with a hint of mysterious intrigue." -Anxious Canadian Blog "Kirsten Mckenzie has written an excellent foray into historical fiction. I'm honestly not quite sure how she was able to keep up with and integrate the different settings, time periods, and characters without losing her place. But she managed it magnificently." -Author Sean Whittaker "McKenzie’s descriptions of the shop are well drawn and wonderfully evoke the jumbled chaos of layers of leftovers from centuries of everyday life." -NZBookLovers blog
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781795628648
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (286 download)
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop . written by Charles Dickens and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 396 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. It was so popular that New York readers stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final installment arrived in 1841. The Old Curiosity Shop was printed in book form in 1841.The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London.Queen Victoria read the novel in 1841, and found it "very interesting and cleverly written"The events of the book seem to take place around 1825. In Chapter 29 Miss Monflathers refers to the death of Lord Byron, who died on 19 April 1824. When the inquest rules (incorrectly) that Quilp committed suicide, his corpse is ordered to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart, a practice banned in 1823
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Library of Esse
ISBN 13 : 9781435116481
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop written by Charles Dickens and published by Barnes & Noble Library of Esse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a blustery winter afternoon in 1840, crowds flooded the docks of the New York and Boston harbors. For months, Victorian audiences had followed the orphan Little Nell's adventures in Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop as she and her beloved grandfather fled the moral and material ravages of London and the machinations of the villainous dwarf, Quilp. Calling wildly to the English ship carrying the next installment of The Old Curiosity Shop, the devoted readers breathlessly demanded the fate of the novel's heroine. For today's reader, The Old Curiosity Shop not only illustrates a poverty that looks uncannily familiar, but forges a heroism from the small acts of caring that make modern life meaningful. The most popular of Dickens' novels in his lifetime, it remains both a page-turner and a masterpiece.
Author : Dickens C.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5521068708
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop written by Dickens C. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 185? with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfl ess devotion. But when they are unable to pay their debts to the lecherous and demonic money-lender Daniel Quilp, the shop is seized and they are forced to fl ee, thrown into a shadowy world in which there seems to be no safe haven. The Old Curiosity Shop an instant bestseller that captured the hearts of the nation.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546814634
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)
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. ...
