The Antique Shop

A intertwining of realistic narrative and fairy tale with elements of gothic, «quirky», «strange and grotesque» characters, dark secrets.
In the novel about Nell, a little girl who is «infinitely sweet-natured», her grandfather, a delusional card player-dreamer, and the cruel dwarf usurer Quilp who pursues them — the eternal theme of the confrontation between good and evil.
One of the most touching novels by Charles Dickens.