Nicholas Nickleby (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) - Softcover

Charles Dickens; Introduction By Jill Muller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593083009 ISBN 13: 9781593083007

Publisher: Barnes & Noble, 2005

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2005 Pages: 848 Publisher: Barnes & Noble Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader . including new scholarship. thoughtful design. and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & ; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences-biographical. historical. and literary-to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Left penniless by the death of his improvident father. young Nicholas Nickleby assumes responsibility for his mother and sister and seeks help from his Scrooge-like Uncle Ralph. Instantly di...

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The Barnes & Noble Classics series offers quality editions of important works of literature at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, each featuring new scholarship and pages of carefully crafted extras. All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. The series pulls together a constellation of influences; biographical, historical and literary, to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

Review:

The novel has everything: an absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics, set in a London where vast wealth and desperate poverty live cheek-by-jow --Jasper Rees - The Times

Nicholas Nickleby was a revelation. Here was a school - Dotheboy's Hall, with its grotesque headmaster, Wackford Squeers - which was even worse than the prison camp to which my poor innocent parents had confined me! The story of Dotheboy's Hall seemed horribly familiar - the beatings, the bad food. But here was something to which even a child could respond. As well as being sympathetic to the plight of the children, the author was hilarious --A.N Wilson

Dickens is huge - like the sky. Pick any page of Dickens and it's immediately recognizable as him, yet he might be doing social satire, or farce, or horror, or a psychological study of a murderer - or any combination of these --Susannah Clarke

About this edition

• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1593083009
• ISBN 13: 9781593083007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 848