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| Nicholas Nickleby
"I shall never regret doing as I have--never, if I starve or beg in consequence"
When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Ni...
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When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself forced to make his own way in the world. Nicholas's adventures gave Dickens the opportunity to portray a extraordinary gallery of rogues and eccentrics: Wackford Squeers, 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. Crummle, and their daughter, the "infant phenomenon". Like many of Dickens's novels, Nicholas Nickleby is characterized by his outrage at cruelty and social injustice, but it is also a flamboyantly exuberant work, revealing Dickens's comic genius at its most unerring.
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| File Size | 3.17 MB |
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| Publisher | Penguin Group, Inc.
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| Publish Date | 11/01/1999 |
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| Print Pages | 864 |
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| Print ISBN | 0140435123 |
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| eBook ISBN | 0786574623 |
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| eBook List Price | $ 7.95 |
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| eBook Store Discount | $ 0.79 |
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. At age eleven, Dickens was taken out of school and sent to work in London backing warehou...
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