The Old Curiosity Shop A Tale (Penguin Classics)

the old curiosity shop

that's Charles Dickens in the old curiosity shop in 1841 and shockingly he's talking about the black country ...

You know, I was just reminded of, you know, the days when Charles Dickens used to publish his novels in serial form. And there'd be people standing, Londoners standing on the docks waiting for the latest chapters of the old Curiosity Shop to be delivered because they were dying to know, like, is little Nell going to be all right?

You know, I was just reminded of, you know, the days when Charles Dickens used to publish his novels in serial form and there'd be people standing, Londoners standing on the docks waiting for the latest chapters of the old Curiosity Shop to be delivered because they were dying to know, like, is little Nell going to be all right?

There have been worries that Nell is to be killed off in this new chapter and crowds have gathered at the dockside seeking news of her fate They stand, reading together and when they learn she is indeed dead there is a bout of collective weeping Elsewhere, the Irish politician Daniel O'Connell is said to have flung the offending section of text from a train window shouting, he should not have killed her