eleanorfranzen 's review for:

The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

3.0

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Not his best, although not amongst his worst, either. There are slightly too many characters with not quite enough to differentiate some of them (Mr. Abel Garland is a total non-entity, for instance), and the ending manages to feel both prolonged and abrupt. But the grotesques are very memorable—Quilp is an immortal character—and it's worth reading.