I looked at the illustration (above) next to a very favourable review in The Spectator of Soft, a brief history of ...

WE have long needed a handsome American edition of the works of the most popular English novelist of the time, and here we have the first volumes of one which is superior, in type, paper, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. As admirable and ambitious as the folks at PBS Masterpiece are -- four ...

The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1979 BBC miniseries based on the novel by Charles Dickens. It was directed by Julian Amyes, and adapted by William Trevor. A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling ...

Dickens' classic about an inveterate gambler (Peter Ustinov) and his granddaughter (Sally Walsh) on the run from a villainous moneylender (Tom Courtenay). Kit: William Mannering. Single Gentleman: ...

Nell Trent lives with her grandfather, the proprietor of the Old Curiosity Shop. Grandfather has a disquieting secret, a gambling addiction fed by high-interest loans from the bully Daniel Quilp. The ...