The Antiquities Shop

The intertwining of realistic narration and fairy tale with elements of gothic, "quirky", "strange and grotesque" characters, dark secrets.

In the novel about Nell, a little girl of "infinitely sweet nature", her grandfather, a senile card-playing dreamer, and the cruel dwarf usurer Quilp who pursues them – the eternal theme of the struggle between good and evil.

One of the most touching novels by C. Dickens.