The Life and Adventures of Nicholas N..., Charles Dickens
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas N..., Charles Dickens
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: Chris MacDonnell

Unabridged: 36 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 02/06/2024


Synopsis

This is Dickens’s third novel and was originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839. It’s a wonderful example of Dickens’s ability to weave plots within plots and portray the most glorious characters. Both theatrical and prosaic, Dickens magnetically and majestically pulls the reader (or listener!) into his unique and inimitable world. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby tells the story of a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies leaving the family impoverished. Mrs. Nickleby takes them to London to appeal to the rich brother of her deceased husband, the uncaring and unscrupulous Ralph Nickleby. Through Ralph’s shameless, corrupt, and underhanded treatment, the family finds themselves facing trials and tribulations that threaten them with complete desolation. Taking on villains, rogues, and crooks who continually try to take advantage of them and those they care about, they are led by Nicholas’s moral rectitude, courage, and determination through all their difficulties. But not without anxiety, distress, and countless obstacles to be faced and overcome.

About Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era. His many books include Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and A Christmas Carol. 

About Chris MacDonnell

Chris MacDonnell, winner of an Earphones Award for excellence and a SOVAS Award for best Classical Audiobook Narrator (The Wind in the Willows), has been an Actor and Narrator in the UK and USA for over forty years, working in London, LA, Regional Repertory Theatre, TV, Film, and BBC Radio drama.


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

Goodreads review by Paul on December 20, 2024

Quintessential Dickens - satire, comedy, social commentary! Fresh from his success on Oliver Twist as a political satirist of note, Dickens turns his sights toward the abuse of Yorkshire schools - a national disgrace - in which children were effectively abandoned for a fee. Neglect, physical abuse, m......more