Product Name: The Old Curiosity Shop 2024 - 9780198124931
ISBN：9780198124931

The Old Curiosity Shop

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Author(s): Charles Dickens, Elizabeth M. Brennan
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom
Imprint: Clarendon Press
ISBN-13: 9780198124931, 978-0198124931

Synopsis

The Old Curiosity Shop was expanded from a short tale to save Dickenss failing periodical Master Humphreys Clock [tel]; it is the first of his novels of which the complete manuscript, many corrected proofs, and some working notes survive. This makes it uniquely interesting to both the textual critic and general reader. Forsters Life of Dickens played down the novelists dependence on his friends help, but the proofs reveal at first hand the
nature of Forsters assistance as well as Dickenss own practice. In conjunction with the manuscript, which contains two previously unprinted notes to his publisher, they show Dickens dealing with the unexpected demands of weekly serialization of an unplanned, full-length novel. This is most obvious as he approaches
the death of Little Nell, in whose fate both he and his readers became emotionally involved.

This is the first edition to benefit from the recent revelation of material which Dickens had himself obscured or discarded on manuscript versos, and the first to scrutinize the importance and impact of the wood engravings dropped into the text.

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