Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens. It follows a young man and his family after misfortune, and his encounters with a cruel Yorkshire school and a travelling theatre company. Dickens mixes humour with social criticism, creating memorable characters and a story of resilience worth listening to.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
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Opening of the book
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, Containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens 0011m Original 0029m Original 0047m Original 0048m Original
0049m Original 0050m Original AUTHOR’S PREFACE This story was begun, within a few months after the publication of the completed “Pickwick Papers.” There were, then, a good many cheap Yorkshire schools in existence. There are very few now. Of the monstrous neglect of education in England, and the disregard of it by the State as a means of forming good or bad citizens, and miserable or happy men, private schools long afforded a notable example. Although any man who had proved his unfitness for any other occupation in life, was free, without examination or qualification, to open a school anywhere; although preparation for the functions he undertook, was required in the surgeon who assisted to bring a boy into the world, or might one day assist, perhaps, to send him out of it; in the chemist, the attorney, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick
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