Nicholas Nickleby By Charles Dickens

Vintage 1943 edition of Charles Dickens’ classic Nicholas Nickleby. 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 phenonenon’. 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. Book is inscribed in ink as a 12th birthday gift and has been stamped by original owner. Front hinge is cracked. Bound in light red cloth. No dustjacket. Spine is sun bleached. Hardcover. Published by J. M. Dent 1943