num_pages: 848
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.
language: English
title: Nicholas Nickleby
titlecomplete: Nicholas Nickleby (Everyman's Library Classics)
characters: Wackford Squeers, Ralph Nickleby, Nicholas Nickleby, Godfrey Nickleby, Smike, Newman Noggs, Fanny Squeers, Vincent Crummles
genres: Literature, Audiobook, Classics, Novels, Classic Literature, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 44036
places: London, England, England, Yorkshire, England
awards: awardedAt: 1325404800000
name: Audie Award
category: Classic
publisher: Everyman