Talk:Nicholas Nickleby

message: Does anyone know if the name "Sliderskew" was intended as a play on "slight askew"?
When I first saw the BBC mini-series of Nicholas Nickleby, I thought that her name was actually Slightaskew - it may not look like it on page, but I think it does sound like it, especially when said with a British accent.
Anyone? --DearPrudence 22:47, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sliderskew - play on "slight askew"? 

message: Original here for comparison.--Old Moonraker (talk) 13:52, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violation. 

message: I don't see why this shouldn't be at Nicholas Nickleby.  It is almost always published under that title, and it is clearly the primary topic for that title, as well. john k (talk) 02:51, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title 

message: An audio version is available at LibriVox: http://librivox.org/the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-by/  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.165.117.73 (talk) 07:49, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Available Versions 

message: 1/23/2010 the article says:  Arthur Gride an elderly miser and associate of Ralph. He pretends to be in love with Madeline, but is only interested in her inheritance. A coward and a boot-licker, he is a thoroughly unlikeable character.
That doesn't make sense - Madeline's father is in debt to Gride - I recall that Madeline's Father agreed to marry his daughter to Gride in exchange for cancelling the debt.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.105.145.106 (talk) 19:22, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Characters 

message: I'm never in favour of change for the sake of it, so this is just to dispute that "Nicholas's", "Dickens's", etc.,  is wrong. The Cambridge Guide to English Usage suggests in respect of proper nouns "Treat all names ending in -s to the full apostrophe".--Old Moonraker (talk) 16:41, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello Old Moonraker. I guess that I am operating on an out-of-date set of standards (not the first time). I would certainly defer to your knowledge of the situation so please feel free to change it back. The "s's" will always look weird to me but I trust your point. Many apologies for the confusion that I have caused. MarnetteD | Talk 20:37, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It can look weird, and in the interest of not attracting further reverts I'm inclined to let it stand; the work I cited allows us a little "wriggle room" by acknowledging that the use of the s-apostrophe alone "lingers". However, Wikipedia pages which have developed with this standard, such as H. G. Wells, will be defended! --Old Moonraker (talk) 09:34, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possessives 

message: In chapter 56 Ralph said "Ten thousand pounds", so there seems to be some kind of conspiracy which Charles Dickens did not explain explicitly.In chapter 64, Nickleby said "He has to suffer the consequence of a conspiracy", "connected with his school". No further explanation is given in the novel. It seems that Ralph and Squeers are trying to mortgage the school for at least ten thousand pounds.
In chapter 63 cherryble said "You are the children of a worthy gentleman", but still, no further explanation is given. xin_jl (talk) 01:29, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: About the conspiracy

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