“The Antiquities Shop” is an interweaving of realistic storytelling and fairy tales with gothic elements, bizarre, strange and grotesque characters, dark secrets. In the novel about Nell, a little girl of “infinitely sweet disposition,” her grandfather, a crazy gambler-dreamer, and the cruel dwarf, the moneylender Quilp, who is pursuing them, the eternal theme of the confrontation between good and evil is raised. One of the most touching novels by Charles Dickens.