# Nicholas Nickleby

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- Authors: [Charles Dickens](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens)
- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-5715-159-6
- Pages: 848
- Published: 1993-09-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Dicken's third novel, published in 1839, is a brilliant and vivid melodrama of honest youth triumphing over vice and injustice. Bursting with energy and populated by a whole world of inimitable and memorable characters - including especially the theatrical troupe with whom Nicholas performs - the book is both a griping story and a series of magnificent scenes. It is also indignant protest against cruelty and oppression, most memorably encapsulated in Dickens's powerful portrayal of Mr Squeers and his wicked boarding school - a passage which was to be instrumental in helping to reform the Victorian education system. The novel has been adapted for television stage and screen.