Friday, April 1, 2011
Rhino 4.0 Evalutaion Version
ANTIQUES SHOP
Author: Charles Dickens Translation: Bernardo Moreno Carrillo
Illustration: George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne
Published : 28/03/2011
Format: 21 x 15 cm
Binding: Paperback with flaps
Pages: 792
PVP: 27 €
ISBN: 978-84-938013-7-3
Stock : White Nights, No. 7
Genre: Fiction
Other languages: German, Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian Czech, Chinese, Croatian, Estonian, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, English, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Turkish
Little Nell Trent is an orphan and lives with his grandfather in the antique shop that this runs. Marked by poverty, both try to get ahead ... until the grandfather turns to Daniel Quilp lender evil, deformed, hunchbacked dwarf.
From time Quilp enters the scene, Nell and her grandfather embark on a journey through England. Run through villages, cities blackened by soot, places full of misery. And in his pilgrimage, in the purest tradition of Cervantes, alternating with a colorful cast of characters: carnies, reading charcoal fire, teachers, trainers of dogs, owners of mobile museums, dandies with a tragic sense of life and stubborn ponies .
serialized between 1840 and 1841, The Old Curiosity Shop is one of the least known works of Dickens in Spain and, despite this, the most famous were the author. Following publication of the final chapter, readers Americans stormed the Docks of New York to ask for news about the end to sailors returning from England. Recently, U.S. newspapers compared the popular excitement before the publication of the last volume of Harry Potter with that of The Old Curiosity Shop .
From time Quilp enters the scene, Nell and her grandfather embark on a journey through England. Run through villages, cities blackened by soot, places full of misery. And in his pilgrimage, in the purest tradition of Cervantes, alternating with a colorful cast of characters: carnies, reading charcoal fire, teachers, trainers of dogs, owners of mobile museums, dandies with a tragic sense of life and stubborn ponies .
serialized between 1840 and 1841, The Old Curiosity Shop is one of the least known works of Dickens in Spain and, despite this, the most famous were the author. Following publication of the final chapter, readers Americans stormed the Docks of New York to ask for news about the end to sailors returning from England. Recently, U.S. newspapers compared the popular excitement before the publication of the last volume of Harry Potter with that of The Old Curiosity Shop .
About the author:
Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812. After a difficult childhood marked by poverty, which brought him twelve years working in a shoe polish factory in 1827 began to exert an intern in a law firm. Seven years later, the Morning Chronicle hired him as a political journalist. These two experiences will serve to, in 1836, publishing his first two books: stubs [under the pseudonym Boz], a collection of articles, and the novel Papers The Pickwick . That same year he married Catherine T. Hogarth and became editor of the literary magazine Bentley's Miscellany until 1839.
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