"The Lover of Antiquities" . The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 184041. The main character of the novel is a girl named Nellie Trent . Her grandfather, the owner of an antique shop, went bankrupt and was forced to wander around England with his granddaughter. The first publication of “The Shop of Antiquities” caused a real furor throughout the English-speaking world. Readers eagerly awaited every chapter of the novel, published in the newspaper in the form of weekly issues. It is known that the inhabitants of New York in 1841, when the party of newspapers with the last chapter arrived, stormed the wharf. The novel was also read by Queen Victoria, who called it “very interesting and cleverly written”... Richard Swinburne called Nell “a monster as improbable as a child with two heads”... Oscar Wilde became the most famous critic of “The Lovers of Antiquities” . ( en. wikipedia. org), Most of the illustrations published in this volume belong to Phys (X. N. Brown) - Dickens's largest illustrator. Illustrations for . 15 (Chapter I), 119 (Chapter XII), 177 (Chapter XIX), 605 (Chapter LXX), 621 (Chapter LXXII) are executed by the famous artist George Cattermol, a contemporary of Dickens. Translated from English by Natalia Volzhina . Third, revised edition of the translation. Comments by Y. Kagarlitsky