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Another Heart Rending Masterpiece Author: Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop is a powerful story of people: greed, addiction, innocence, evil, happiness in the midst of dire circumstances, ruinous dreams of wealth, and all the life and sorrow that happens in between. As with any Dickens tale, the characters are vibrant, both absurd in their extremities and recognizable in their very humanness, saints and sinners side by side in the drama of life and the pain of relationship. By Joseph Clayton Clarke (1857-1937) - Scanned from a print in my collection, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47402402 It begins with the Grandfather [...]