Old Curiosity Shop, The

noun

1. a novel (1840–41) by Dickens.

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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.

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

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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.

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