Nicholas Nickleby
''A revelation ... as well as being sympathetic to the plight of children, it is hilarious'' A. N. Wilson
The hero of Dickens''s flamboyantly exuberant novel, Nicholas Nickleby, is left penniless after his father''s death and forced to make his own way in the world. His adventures give Dickens the opportunity to portray an extraordinary gallery of rogues and eccentrics: Wackford Squeers, the tyrann...
''A revelation ... as well as being sympathetic to the plight of children, it is hilarious'' A. N. Wilson
The hero of Dickens''s flamboyantly exuberant novel, Nicholas Nickleby, is left penniless after his father''s death and forced to make his own way in the world. His adventures give Dickens the opportunity to portray an extraordinary gallery of rogues and eccentrics: Wackford Squeers, the tyrann...
