Probably none of the famous characters of the most popular in the XIX century English writer Charles Dickens did not cause readers such sympathy as Nellie Trent from the novel “The Shop of Antiquities” the personification of kindness, gentleness and selflessness. Left homeless, little Nell and her grandfather, the owner of an old antique shop, are forced to experience all the injustice and cruelty of the world. The grotesque embodiment of the evil prevailing in the world is represented in the novel by the usurer Quilp, a freak and dwarf who has nothing human in his form and in his soul. This fantastic, "Gothic", fabulous, sentimental, realistic, in something tragic, and in something comical story will forever remain one of Dickens's favorite books in the world.