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The Old Curiosity Shop

14 years ago

Is anyone reading this in advance of the Masterpiece Theater piece coming soon? I've read most of Dickens but not this novel. I'm about 30% through it at the moment and find the usually-weeping Little Nell and her dim-witted grandfather tedious, but the minor characters (e.g. Mrs. Jarley of Jarley's Waxworks) are delightful. I did think that the grandfather's gambling addiction was interesting in that the narrator calls it a "disease" and not, as one would think for the time, a moral failing.

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