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The old curiosity shop hibrow literature simon callow joanna lumley charles dickens. The old curiosity shop is one of two novels the other being barnaby rudge which charles dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial master humphreys clock, from 1840 to 1841. Since 1929, the penguin bookshop has been a fixture in the bucolic town of sewickley, pennsylvania. With more than 1,700 titles, penguin classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.
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