Nicholas Nickleby (Nonesuch Dickens)
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good (acetate)
- ISBN 10
- 1590201329
- ISBN 13
- 9781590201329
- Seller
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Plain Tales Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026825
- Title
- Nicholas Nickleby (Nonesuch Dickens)
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Illustrator
- Phiz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good (acetate)
- ISBN 10
- 1590201329
- ISBN 13
- 9781590201329
- Publisher
- The Overlook Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
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