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Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens:

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London, Chapman and Hall, 1848. With a frontispiece from a painting by T. Webster , engraved by T. Williams. Slightly worn three quarter calf with marbled boards. Raised bands on spine with Greek key pattern. 499pp. Some slightly gr ubby at the edges. Good..

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
Pend Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
601
Title
Nicholas Nickleby
Author
Charles Dickens:
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
London, Chapman and Hall, 1848
Keywords
CHARLES DICKENS, ENGLISH LITERATURE, NOVELS, VICTORIAN NOVELISTS, NOVELS

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Marbled boards
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Raised Band(s)
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Spine
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Calf
Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
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