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Nicholas Nickleby

By Charles Dickens

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Nicholas Nickleby

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Charles Dickens had an understanding of mid-Victorian society second to none, and genius and energy massive enough to make the absurdities and terrors of that society come alive on the page. Nicholas Nickleby, with its episodes of chicanery in finance and education, and the dramatic intensity with which it tells the story of its openhearted young protagonist and its frightening villain, the magnificently rendered Ralph Nickleby, represents Dickens at his clear-eyed, indignant, and mesmerizing best.             When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless by the death of his father, he appeals to his Uncle Ralph to help him and his mother and sister. But Ralph conceives a violent hatred of the young man, and his schemes of persecution haunt Nicholas through a series of picaresque adventures, including a job as a tutor at a horrific school for unwanted boys run by the cruel Wackford Squeers and a stint as a member of the eccentric Crummles family theater troupe. Without shying away from the grimmer aspects of the world Nicholas encounters on his path to eventual happiness, the story remains one of Dickens’s most high-spirited and exuberant. This edition reprints the original Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton and includes thirty-nine illustrations by Phiz.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
914
Release Date:
1993-10-26
Publication Date:
1993-10-26
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679423079
ISBN13:
9780679423072
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
835 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
43 cm

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