The old curiosity shop
(1997)
Fiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Phoenix Books, Inc., 1997
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 51 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781597777094 MWT15436916, 1597777099 15436916
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Paul Scofield
In London, Little Nell lives in The Old Curiosity Shop with her grandfather, who has a weakness for gambling. Hoping to mend his finances, the old man borrows money from Quilp, a moneylender and swindler. After losing that money as well, the grandfather flees to the country with Nell in a desperate attempt to escape the clutches of Quilp, who has designs on Nell and believes that the grandfather is secretly a rich miser. Out of devotion to Nell, Kit Nubbles, the shop' s errand boy, pursues the pair and in the process earning the wrath of Quilp
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