Nicholas Nickleby (Penguin Popular Classics) - Softcover

Charles Dickens

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140620575 ISBN 13: 9780140620573

Publisher: Penguin Popular Classics, 1994

Synopsis

Nicholas is a young man of impetuous temper and little or no experience, who saves his family from dire misfortune at the hands of his villainous uncle. Mixing comedy and horror, melodrama and acid satire, Dickens depicts a world in which the exploitation and abuse of youth and innocence cannot ever fully vanquish kindness, affection and the joyful energies of life.

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From the Publisher

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From the Back Cover

Charles Dickens had an understanding of mid-Victorian society second to none, and genius and energy massive enough to make the absurdities and terrors of that society come alive on the page. Nicholas Nickleby, with its episodes of chicanery in finance and education, and the dramatic intensity with which it tells the story of its open-hearted protagonists - a young brother and sister at sea in a dangerous world - and its frightening villain, the magnificently rendered Ralph Nickleby, represents Dickens at his clear-eyed, indignant and mesmerizing best.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Popular Classics
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140620575
• ISBN 13: 9780140620573
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 816