Books Details
Author : Charles Dickens Pages : 817 pages Publisher : Penguin Language : eng ISBN-
10 : 325085.Nicholas_Nickleby ISBN-13 : 9780140435122
Books Descriptions
'I shall never regret doing as I have?never, if I starve or beg in consequence' When
Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy
uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby
proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself forced to
make his own way in the world. His adventures gave Dickens the opportunity to
portray an extraordinary gallery of rogues and eccentrics: Wackford Squeers, the
tyrannical headmaster of Dotheboys Hall, a school for unwanted boys; the slow-
witted orphan Smike, rescued by Nicholas; and the gloriously theatrical Mr and Mrs
Crummles and their daughter, the 'infant phenonenon'. Like many of Dickens's
novels, Nicholas Nickleby is characterised by his outrage at cruelty and social
injustice, but it is also a flamboyantly exuberant work, revealing his comic genius at
its most unerring.
