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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The most popular of Dicken's works while he was alive, with throngs of people excitedly waiting at the dock in New York for the final installment to arrive from England, which I find rather extraordinary. It's Dickens, so it's good if you like Dickens, but I'd admit to it being fairly watery and thin otherwise. Perhaps it shows the excitement that an innocent young girl in mortal danger can inspire - certainly little Nell is every bit as pure-hearted and angel-winged as Oliver Twist, Beyond that it has it has its requisite villain, and its requisite noble wealthy gentleman who swoops in near the end, but the overlooked star of the show has to be Whiskers the pony, admirably insisting on living his life his way, gentlemen be damned. Whiskers, thanks for keeping it real. Stories that Americans stormed the docks to obtain copies of this novel's final installment when it arrived are untrue, as demonstrated by Carra Glatt in this truly excellent essay from Ninteenth-Century Studies (which is unfortunately behind a paywall). Having read the novel, I agree that it must be untrue, because by that point the novel has gotten so boring that the only reason I can imagine storming the docks is to throw all the copies of the final installment into the sea, to save one having to read it. Like most Dickens novels, it starts out well, with Nell, her grandfather, and her friend Kit all sharply drawn in the usual Dickensian fashion. Good pathos and good comedy and good mystery. Nell and her grandfather taking to the road in desperation is well done, and there's so tense stuff as they set forth; Kit's mother provides some good comedy. But like so many Dickens novels, I am finding, it fizzles away its good start. Soon Nell and her grandfather fade out of the story, and we are reading page upon page about these incredibly boring people adjacent to her family and oh my god please make it stop. Has this child heroically persevered under all doubts and dangers, struggled with poverty and suffering, upheld and sustained by strong affection and the consciousness of rectitude alone! And yet the world is full of such heroism. Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day! And should I be surprised to hear the story of this child! ...so do things pass away, like a tale that is told! Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiCollins Classics (36) Everyman's Library (173) — 13 altro Penguin English Library, 2012 series (2012-07) The World's Classics (270) È contenuto inHa l'adattamentoÈ riassunto in
La bottega dell'antiquario (titolo originale The Old Curiosity Shop) #65533; il quarto romanzo scritto e pubblicato da Charles Dickens, uscito per la prima volta a puntate su rivista tra il 1840-41 e subito dopo in volume.La storia tratta della giovane Nell, che vive sola col nonno materno - il cui nome non viene mai rivelato - in una vecchia casa di Londra chiamata The Old Curiosity Shop perch#65533; al piano terra ha un negozio pieno d'oggetti d'antiquariato. A seguito di tutta una serie di debiti contratti al gioco, il vecchio #65533; costretto nottetempo a fuggire accompagnato dalla piccola orfana Nell.Il romanzo venne pubblicato nel 1840 sul settimanale Master Humphrey's Clock (in italiano L'orologio di mastro Humphrey), fondato da Dickens nello stesso anno. Il settimanale non ebbe molto successo e venne perci#65533; edito soltanto fino al 1842, ma il libro riscosse e riscuote tuttora il favore del pubblico. Uno dei principali illustratori di questo romanzo (e delle opere di Dickens in generale) fu Hablot Knight Browne, in arte Phiz.Gli eventi sembrano svolgersi nel 1825 e oltre; alcune indicazioni sono lasciate qua e l#65533; come punti di riferimento, ad es. nel Cap. 29 dove si allude alla morte da poco avvenuta di Lord Byron. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I'm not sure if this is really worth 4-stars. Characters like Mrs. Quilp threaten to show signs of a personality and then fade back into the wallpaper. Predictable moment is heaped on predictable moment, glued together with endless apostrophising and moralising. This is perhaps the most dated of Dickens' serious novels. Yet it's still a compelling read, filled with rich descriptions of character and place, with a sense of social seriousness that anchors the novel far stronger than most of its contemporaries. I may never truly understand the "Little Nell mania" of the 1840s, but I can at least appreciate the man behind it. ( )