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Nicholas Nickleby
by Charles Dickens
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
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About This Item
UK: Chapman & Hall, 1839. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens First Edition Chapman & Hall 1839. Quarter leather binding with raised bands and marbled covers. Contents clean and unblemished throughout. With 'Sister' (p.123) and 'latter' (p. 160) left uncorrected. VG+. "Nicholas Nickleby" is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a serial in 1838-39. It follows the struggles of Nicholas, a young man who, after the death of his father, must support his mother and sister. He takes a job teaching at a brutal school, run by the cruel Mr. Wackford Squeers. Eventually, Nicholas and his family join a traveling theater company, where he falls in love with a young actress. Along the way, he encounters a variety of colorful characters, including the scheming Ralph Nickleby, his nephew's archenemy. The novel is a satirical critique of social and economic injustices of Victorian England.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Brought to Book Ltd
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007286
- Title
- Nicholas Nickleby
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1839
- Weight
- 1.43 lbs
- Keywords
- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens First Edition Chapman & Hall 1839
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