One of the most beautiful and refined novels of Чарлза of Dickens, fixed in basis of great number of films and tele-serials.History about strange things, strange people and strange relations.Mysterious, fantastic history in that the lines of realism interlace with reasons of folk and literary tale.There is a grotesque in her, and even some tints of "gothic" novel complete gloomy secrets and ominous allusions.However literary eclecticism goes only to the benefit to "Bench of antiquities", completing stylistic many-sided nature of this in truth striking work.Times and centuries pass, - and little Nelly and her grandfather, нищий dreamer, still plod through wind, rain and fog of endless roads of victorian England.