Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop
Hardcover
(Dutton Adult Aug. 1, 1956)
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.'
- Series
- Everyman's Library
- ISBN
- 0460001736 / 9780460001731
- Weight
- 14.1 oz.