Nicholas Nickleby (Collector's Library) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1904633846 ISBN 13: 9781904633846

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2004

Synopsis

Nicholas Nickleby is one of Dickens's early novels, a popular melodrama with a rich list of characters. When his father dies penniless, Nicholas Nickleby, his mother and his sister Kate are thrown on the mercy of his corrupt uncle Ralph Nickleby. Sent away to teach at the infamous Dotheboys Hall, run by the sadistic Wackford Squeers, Nicholas eventually absconds, but not before rescuing the poor abused Smike. He returns home just in time to save his sister from the unwanted attentions of Sir Mulberry Hawk, and eventually his family's fortunes are restored.

Illustrated by H K Browne 'Phiz', with an Afterword by David Stuart Davies.

About this title

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

Book Description:

Charles Dickens' much-loved classic novel, read by Martin Jarvis

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1904633846
• ISBN 13: 9781904633846
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1216