The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
First published 1800 · 738 pages
About this book
Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies. The novel follows his attempt to succeed in supporting them, despite his uncle Ralph's antagonistic lack of belief in him. It is one of Dickens' early comic novels.
- Fiction
- Young men
- Boarding schools
- Poor families
- Theatrical companies
- Death
- Uncles
- Fathers
