- Published: 1 April 2011
- ISBN: 9780099540793
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 944
- RRP: $29.99
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- Published: 1 April 2011
- ISBN: 9780099540793
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 944
- RRP: $29.99
The novel has everything: an absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics, set in a London where vast wealth and desperate poverty live cheek-by-jow
Jasper Rees, The Times
Nicholas Nickleby was a revelation. Here was a school - Dotheboy's Hall, with its grotesque headmaster, Wackford Squeers - which was even worse than the prison camp to which my poor innocent parents had confined me! The story of Dotheboy's Hall seemed horribly familiar - the beatings, the bad food. But here was something to which even a child could respond. As well as being sympathetic to the plight of the children, the author was hilarious
A.N Wilson
Dickens is huge - like the sky. Pick any page of Dickens and it's immediately recognizable as him, yet he might be doing social satire, or farce, or horror, or a psychological study of a murderer - or any combination of these
Susannah Clarke