Nicholas Nickleby

The archetypal rags-to-riches story, Nicholas Nickleby (1839) follows the titular Nicholas and his family as they fall onto hard times after the death of their father. With no other options, they are forced to beg for help from their wealthy and ruthless uncle, Ralph Nickleby.

True to form, Ralph sets each of the family members on equally unpleasant paths: Nicholas to teach at a notoriously abusive boarding school and his sister Kate and his mother to live in squalid conditions while Kate works for a milliner who humiliates her on a daily basis. Through Nicholas’ cunning, courage, and good nature, he is able to escape the boarding school and free his mother and sister from their oppressive arrangements. He falls madly in love with a wealthy artist who is also wrapped up in his uncle’s schemes and, in the end, manages to free her as well, leading to the downfall of Ralph and the ascendence of Nicholas and his family. True to form, Charles Dickens delivers the story with astute prose and witty humor, crafting a narrative that is at once satirical, melodramatic, and heartfelt.

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