Angelic Little Nell Trent and her ruined grandfather flee their London curiosity shop and wander the English countryside to escape the malignant dwarf moneylender Daniel Quilp.
Books mentioned in The Old Curiosity Shop (2)
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan: “There had been an old copy of the Pilgrim's Progress, with strange plates, upon a shelf at home, over which she had often pored whole evenings, wondering whether it was true in every word, and where those distant countries with the curious names might be.”
A Thousand and One Nights: “I have woke up, by mistake, in an Arabian Night, instead of a London one.”
Books that mention The Old Curiosity Shop (1)
So Big by Edna Ferber: “a sort of mixture of Dick Swiveller’s Marchioness and Sarah Crewe.”