The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens' creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters--the eloquent ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the "Marchioness;" the mannish lawyer Sally Brass; Quilp's brow-beaten mother-in-law; and Quilphimself, the lustful, vengeful dwarf, whose demonic energy makes a vivid counterpoint to Nell's purity.
year: 1951, 1972, 1998, 1988, 2003, 1948, 1943, 2000, 1995
call number/section: 1000
subjects: gambling, england, fiction, england, social life and customs, 19th century, fiction, grandfathers, girl orphans, gamblers, voyages and travels, antique dealers, grandparent and child, dwarfs, grandparent-grandchild relationship
Editions
Dickens, Charles
Oxford University Press (1951)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Penguin (1972)
Schools: 2
Dickens, Charles
Book-of-the-Month Club (1998)
This is the story of Little Nell Trent and her grandfather as they wandered through English towns and countryside and of Daniel Quilp's compulsion to destroy the happiness of Nell and her friends.
Schools: 3
Dickens, Charles
Reader's Digest (1988)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Dover (2003)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Dodd, Mead (1948)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Dodd, Mead (1943)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Dodd, Mead (1943)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Dodd, Mead & Company (1943)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Dodd, Mead & Company (1943)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Oxford University Press (1951)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Penguin Books (2000)
The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens' creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters--the eloquent ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the "Marchioness;" the mannish lawyer Sally Brass; Quilp's brow-beaten mother-in-law; and Quilphimself, the lustful, vengeful dwarf, whose demonic energy makes a vivid counterpoint to Nell's purity.
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Dodd, Mead & Company (1943)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Dodd, Mead (1943)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Dodd, Mead (1948)
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Dodd, Mead (1943)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Dodd, Mead & Company (1943)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Dodd, Mead & Company (1943)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Dodd, Mead & Company (1943)
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Alfred A. Knopf (1995)
Little Nell, a young girl in Victorian England, is uprooted from her secure and innocent childhood and cast into a world of evil when she and her grandfather are pursued relentlessly by the evil and loathsome dwarf Quilp.
Schools: 1