"The Old Curiosity Shop"
by Charles Dickens
[A BBC RADIO 4 FULL-CAST DRAMATISATION]
The Old Curiosity Shop (along with Barnaby Rudge) was one of two novels which Dickens published in his short-lived weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, which lasted from 1840 to 1841, when Barnaby Rudge was published. The Old Curiosity Shop was printed as a separate book in 1841.