The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Paperback - 1999
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
Description
Details
- Title The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
- Author Dickens, Charles
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New Ed
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 864
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, London/NY.
- Date 1999-11-01
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4743126-6
- ISBN 9780140435122 / 0140435123
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.7 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 4.32 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 640
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects England, Widows
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00698638
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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About this book
Nicholas Nickleby finds himself penniless after his father's death and turns to his wealthy uncle to help him find work in effort to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself forced to navigate his own way in the world. This adventure 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 phenomenon'. Like many of Dickens's novels, Nicholas Nickleby is characterised by his outrage at cruelty and social injustice, but is also a lively work, revealing his comic genius at its highest.
Summary
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.
Nicholas’s adventures gave Dickens the opportunity to portray a extraordinary gallery of rogues and eccentrics: Wackford Squeers, 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 Crummle, and their daughter, the ‘infant phenomenon’. Like many of Dickens’s novels, Nicholas Nickleby is characterized by his outrage at cruelty and social injustice, but it is also a flamboyantly exuberant work, revealing Dickens’s comic genius at its most unerring.
Mark Ford’s introduction compares Nicholas Nickleby to eighteenth-century picaresque novels, and examines Dickens’s criticism of the ‘Yorkshire Schools’, his social satire and use of language. This edition also includes the original illustrations by ‘Phiz’, a chronology and a list for further reading.
From the publisher
First Edition Identification
The story was originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839 and first published as a book in 1839 by Chapman & Hall, London. The first editions feature 40 engraved plates by Phiz.
