Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens (1900s)

S$47.00

Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens (1900s)

S$47.00

Title: Nicholas Nickleby

Author: Charles Dickens, Phiz (illus)

Publisher: Chapman & Hall, London. No date, research reveals it to be between 1900-1910.

Condition: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good. Spine slightly sunned, edges tanned with slight soiling to top edge. Binding sagging slightly. With black-and-white illustrations. On thin paper. 959pp., app 7.5″x5″.

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About the book (from Goodreads):

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 phenomenon’. 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.