The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1839) by Charles Dickens (Classics - Softcover

Dickens, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1530354188 ISBN 13: 9781530354184

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

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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. His adventures 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 phenonenon'. Like many of Dickens's novels, Nicholas Nickleby is characterised by his outrage at cruelty and social injustice, but it is also a flamboyantly exuberant work, revealing his comic genius at its most unerring

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1530354188
• ISBN 13: 9781530354184
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 558