The Old Curiosity Shop

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The Old Curiosity Shop

Cover, the serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 1840
Author	Charles Dickens
Illustrator	George Cattermole Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) Samuel Williams Daniel Maclise
Cover artist	George Cattermole
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Published	Serialised April 1840 – February 1841;[1] book format 1841
Publisher	Chapman & Hall London
Publication place	England
Media type	Print
Preceded by	Nicholas Nickleby
Followed by	Barnaby Rudge
Text	The Old Curiosity Shop at Wikisource

The Old Curiosity Shop is the fourth novel by English author Charles Dickens; being one of his two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers reputedly stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final instalment arrived in 1841.^[2]

The Old Curiosity Shop was printed in book form in 1841. Queen Victoria read the novel that year and found it "very interesting and cleverly written".^[3]

The plot follows the journey of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London, whose lives are thrown into disarray and destitution due to the machinations of an evil moneylender and the grandfather's addiction to gambling.