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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 03/02/2011
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ISBN: 9780099540793
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Length: 944 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 40mm x 129mm
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Weight: 639g
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RRP: £7.99
'The novel has everything: absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics' The Times
When Nicholas's father dies he, his mother and sister are left penniless. To earn his keep, Nicholas becomes a tutor at Dotheboys Hall but soon discovers that the headmaster, Wackford Squeers, is a one-eyed tyrant who insists on a harsh regime. Nicholas embarks on an adventure that takes him from loathsome boarding schools to the London stage. Dickens confronts issues of neglect and cruelty in this blackly comic masterpiece.
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 03/02/2011
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ISBN: 9780099540793
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Length: 944 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 40mm x 129mm
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Weight: 639g
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RRP: £7.99
Reviews
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The novel has everything: an absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics, set in a London where vast wealth and desperate poverty live cheek-by-jow
Jasper Rees, The Times
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Nicholas Nickleby was a revelation. Here was a school - Dotheboy's Hall, with its grotesque headmaster, Wackford Squeers - which was even worse than the prison camp to which my poor innocent parents had confined me! The story of Dotheboy's Hall seemed horribly familiar - the beatings, the bad food. But here was something to which even a child could respond. As well as being sympathetic to the plight of the children, the author was hilarious
A.N Wilson
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Dickens is huge - like the sky. Pick any page of Dickens and it's immediately recognizable as him, yet he might be doing social satire, or farce, or horror, or a psychological study of a murderer - or any combination of these
Susannah Clarke
