Old Curiosity Shop, The

noun

1. a novel (1840–41) by Dickens.

Example Sentences

Charles Dickens had endowed the villain of his “The Old Curiosity Shop,” the dwarf Daniel Quilp, with every imaginable evil: he is a bitter, wife-beating, pedophiliac sociopath.

From Salon

Again, in The Old Curiosity Shop, the starving of child servants is condemned by the way Sally Brass fed the Marchioness.

From Project Gutenberg

In The Old Curiosity Shop, ‘The Stranger’ is found to be the brother of the Grandfather. 

From Project Gutenberg

After The Old Curiosity Shop, the cult of childhood ... became endemic.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Old Curiosity Shop, The," 48, 94, 105.

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