Old Curiosity Shop, The

American  

noun

1. a novel (1840–41) by Dickens.

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Example Sentences

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

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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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But in these earlier books at least, such as The Old Curiosity Shop, the grave or moral figures throw no light upon morals.

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The first came by post and was a pamphlet on Christian Science and Absent-Mindedness, exactly similar to the one I had taken away from the old curiosity shop; the second was a small key made from my wax impression that would fit the front door of the same shop—a key fashioned by an excellent anarchist friend of mine in an obscure street near Holborn.

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