The Old Curiosity Shop Novel
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In The Old Curiosity Shop Epic an old interest book recounts to the narrative of Neil Trent, the delightful, pure little youngster of “just about fourteen years of age”. Neil the vagrant lives with her maternal granddad (whose name has not been discharged) in a various store. The grandfather loves his granddaughter with great love, but she is not complaining, but rather lives a single life and almost no friend has the same age. Neal has only one friend, Kate, the honest boy who works in the store while Neil teaches him to write in The Old Curiosity Shop Novel. The grandfather tries to secure a good inheritance for Neil through gambling, due to his hidden concern of his granddaughter not to die in poverty as happened with her parents. Grandpa keeps his night games a secret, but he often borrows money from Daniel Quilb, the malicious humpback dwarf moneylender with an ugly distortion. In the end, the grandfather gambles with the little money raised, while Culp takes the opportunity to take over the store and expel Neil and her grandfather from it. The grandfather suffers a collapse that deprives him of his acumen, and Neal takes him to the lands of Central England to live together as beggars. Wealthy brother Neal, Frederick, persuades Dick Swievler, the kind, and easy-to-deceive young man, in helping him track down Neal, driven by his conviction that the old man saved a great deal of wealth for Neal, and plans to marry Swievler Neal so that he can share this assumed inheritance as you can see in The Old Curiosity Shop Novel. Both Friedrich and Swieffler in The Old Curiosity Shop Novel co-operate with Quilb to this end; Quilb knows perfectly well that there is no wealth, but he chooses to “help” them with all sadism so that he can enjoy the tragedies that will fall upon all concerned. Quilb starts trying to track down Neal, but he cannot find the fugitives easily. Quilb is making arrangements to keep Dick Swieffler under his watch, as he hires him as a clerk for his lawyer, Mr. Brass. Swievler befriends one of the maids that Mr. Brass mistreated, as Swievler calls it the “noble”. Neal got involved with many characters
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