Talk:The Old Curiosity Shop

old comment
The section Plot Introduction seems very subjective. 'It is one of his funniest and most entertaining', 'like all of Dickens's novels, the book is full of wonderful characters' both seem to be little more than opinions (esp. without citation)
 * These phrases have been removed from the article. Doctormatt 02:00, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

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Animated Version
I had an animated verision as a child on VHS? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.100.59.103 (talk • contribs)

Failure of Musical Version
The statement about 'A musical version... was a flop because the age of the conventional British musical had passed.' is uncited and seems subjective. Gholson (talk) 13:06, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

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Copyedit blitz coming!
In the next week or two I plan on overhauling this article. If anybody has any suggestions, requests, etc., lodge them now. Overall I think this article sort of stinks, so far, and reads more like a too-long sixth-grade book report than an encyclopedic narrative, and I want to try and spiff it up, but I don't want to scare anybody by making (the necessarily dramatic) changes without warning. So you're warned! Love, Sugarbat (talk) 05:23, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

1904 book
I just recently inherited a copy of the book that was copywrited and published in 1904 with a leatherbound so I added it in. Hopefully, this is okay and if proof needs to be provided, I am willing to take pictures (and add it in, maybe?) Yoryx (talk) 07:31, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I have a first edition of which I'm very proud. Nadquilp7 (talk) 23:54, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Error
There's a malfunction with the text in the 'Plot summary' section. I've no idea how to fix it so I'll just leave this comment here and hope someone sees it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.197.44.235 (talk) 00:23, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Nell as a Mary-Sue
I hate to say it's understandable about the ridicule the character Nell gets as she just seemed to perfect at times and her death was so predicable as a narrative device.--208.79.246.64 (talk) 22:35, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

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Why does cover image in infobox say Barnaby Rudge?
The cover image used in the infobox says, by caption, that it is the publication that carried the instalments of the novel before it was published as a book. I see the name Barnaby Rudge below the title Master Humphrey's Clock. Other print on the image is too small or too out of focus to read, for me at least. It looks like the same image as is used for the infobox for the next novel, Barnaby Rudge and checking the image use, it is exactly the same image. Is there a wrapper showing The Old Curiosity Shop? If not, the title page from the book ought to be in the infobox. --Prairieplant (talk) 23:10, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Swinburne's comment
I inserted the words "due to her flawlessness and imperturbability"- paraphrasing the cited Swinburne text, which says she's too perfect, nothing ever bothers her, and so on- before the quotation from him about Nell being "a monster (etc)" so as to indicate WHY Swinburne came to that conclusion, but was reverted by RWood128 (who appears to keep a close eye on this article from the edit history) on the grounds that the clarification was "not an improvement". Surely this presupposes all readers of the article are either a) aware of what Swinburne means by calling Nell "a monster (etc)"; b) likely to check the cited text? Even from reading the article in full, it's not necessarily clear, so I can't quite see why an extremely brief indication of the reason for what he wrote is "not an improvement"; even if it's the choice of words, that's merely stylistic. If the only argument is "it's obvious to any reader of the article what Swinburne meant", I would have to disagree. I'm not a devoted fan of the book or of Dickens so I'm not really invested in the matter aside from as a minor point of interest, but I'm a little confused by the logic applied here. Also- a definite improvement of that section in particular would be the citation of a source for the Wilde comment; if it's "reputed" that he made it, it must appear in a published source somewhere, one would imagine; additionally, the remark re: Nell's "deathbed" is superfluous as Wilde makes no reference to any such thing; the events of Chapter 71 constitute "the death of little Nell" within the context of the book. The lack of description of her "deathbed" is neither here nor there with regard to Wilde's alleged comment.