- Fiction, Young men, Boarding schools, Poor families
Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies. The novel follows his attempt to succeed in supporting them, despite his uncle Ralph's antagonistic lack of belief in him. It is one of Dickens' early comic novels.
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Classical in form, resolved, spare and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Charles Dickens
- First published
- 1843
- Pages
- 738
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates, B. Tauchnitz, Arcturus
- Editions
- 392
- Language
- English, German, Dutch, French
- ISBN
- 9780341934981
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“There once lived in a sequestered part of the country of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby, a worthy gentleman, who taking it into his head rather late in life that he must get married, and not being young enough or rich enough to aspire to the hand of a lady of fortune, had wedded an old flame out of mere attachment, who in her turn had taken him for the same reason: thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a quiet game for love.”
Charles Dickens, was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most iconic characters, with the theme of social reform running throughout his work. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
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