Volume 50, Number 14 · September 25, 2003
Missing Person
By Fintan O'Toole
Personality
by Andrew O'Hagan
Harcourt, 311 pp., $25.00
In the first chapter of Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, the narrator encounters the child who will become notorious to those with no sweet tooth for sentimentality as Little Nell. He helps her to find her way home to her grandfather. Once there, the child begins the task of preparing supper, and the narrator is disturbed to realize that she has full charge of the household. Like the decent Victorian gentleman that he is, he raises his concerns with the grandfather:
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