This the story of Little Nell and her Grandfather and the characters that they met.
I loved the way Dickens is able to create such a vast and intricate web from such seemingly disparate pieces. The imagery and description in the novel that truly sets it apart. There is a wide cast of characters which resembles the profusion of old curiosities in the eponymous shop’s window. I loved Kit and the kind school teacher as well as the villain the Daniel Quilp.
The grandfather’s addiction to
gambling is still a curiosity in some respects, although repeated up and down this and many other
countries, in betting shops, casinos and gambling dens every day of the
week which makes this book still relevant today.
I found he tactic of introducing Nell and her grandfather via an unnamed
narrator who wanders straight out of the story afterwards confusing but apparently it's a common feature of Victorian fiction
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