Nicholas Nickleby

Name: Nicholas Nickleby
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780857864499

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: Martin Jarvis

Abridged: 2 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: CSA Word

Published: 11/03/2011

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Read by Martin Jarvis, Nicholas Nickleby is at once a moving and funny novel following the fortunes and misfortunes of an impetuous and high-spirited hero. Nicholas, along with his sister Kate, is left penniless and homeless by his father's death. He becomes a schoolmaster to make ends meet but is appalled by the conditions and regime of the Dotheby Hall. Following a fight he leaves for London taking with him Smikes, a half-starved pupil. A true champion of the weak, and now with Kate and Smikes under his wing, Nicholas constantly has to pit himself against Ralph, his devious and unscrupulous uncle, in order to survive .

Includes music extracts from Mozart's 'Clarinet Quartet in E Flat'.

About Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was born in Portsmouth, and grew up in Kent and London. He began contributing to periodicals in his twenties, publishing his first book in 1836. He published magazines and serialised novels throughout his career, achieving international fame for his writing and public readings. David Copperfield was first published as a serial between 1849 and 1850, and as a book in 1850.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on February 07, 2025

Peter Ackroyd, in his ground-breaking biography of Charles Dickens, says that Nicholas Nickleby is "perhaps the funniest novel in the English language". The complete title of the novel is perhaps a bit of a mouthful, "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the......more

Goodreads review by BJ on November 29, 2024

Absolutely the silliest work of genius I have ever read. 800-odd pages, and every one of them delightful, preposterous, romantic, hilarious, stupid, lovely. The most villainous villains a merry heart could possibly imagine. Nonsense of the finest vintage. I don’t think I quite understood Dickens unt......more

Goodreads review by Glenn on February 08, 2021

Was there ever a novelist with a bigger heart than Charles Dickens? This is the sixth Dickens book I’ve read (including the novella A Christmas Carol). And, like most of his other works, it’s expansive, bursting with all manner of incident and life. Some of that life, mind you, goes ON AND ON. A......more