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What the Dickens?

Advantages: Good plot
Disadvantages: One-dimensional characters

Nicholas Nickleby is the first “romance” that Dickens wrote, which isn’t hard to tell while you’re reading it. It is very openly about good and evil, and possibly as a consequence of this most of the characters are somewhat two-dimensional. The plot engages the reader very easily, simply by changing direction every few chapters. The main character is, as one might expect from the title, Nicholas Nickleby, who comes to London with his mother and ...
...death of his father. As Nicholas is inherently good and generous, and his uncle Ralph is inherently evil and a miser, the two take an instant dislike to each other, and this dislike drives the rest of the book. Ralph arranges for Nicholas to work as assistant master at a school in Yorkshire, a position he knows he will quickly come to hate, for a man almost as miserly as he is, who is cruel to the boys under his care. He promises to look after Nicholas’ ...

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the neutralisation of comedy

Advantages: wonderfully envisaged comic characters
Disadvantages: lack of interest in the main characters

Nicholas approaches his uncle Ralph in London to appeal for assistance for himself, his sister Kate and his mother after his father dies. Unfortunately, Ralph has made a God of money rather than family, and his reluctant 'help' consists in him finding the siblings unsuitable jobs and allowing Kate in particular to be socially abused by his business partners. The novel follows Nicholas's path to becoming a gentleman and re-establishing his sister ...
...for the most part, (all Nicholas wants is to be a gentleman,) but the minor characters are fascinating, and it is not necessarily true that one-sided means boring. Mrs Nickleby is a rich seam of humour as her monologues roll on without impediment, encompassing Shakespeare, partridges, hansom cabs and all sorts without the slightest reference to what her audience might or might not be interested in. Her idea of being courted by 'the gentleman in the ...

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A Forgotten Classic

Advantages: Very moving story
Disadvantages: too many adverts

..."The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, was shown on I.T.V. as a two part drama.It's based on the book Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens.This is one of the authors lesser known books. Actors. Charles Dance, Pam Feffis, Gregor Fisher,James D'arcy, Liz Smith, Dominic West and a few other named actors star in the drama. The Story. When his Father dies Nicholas starts off by going to London, with his Mother and Sister,Kate. They end up ...
...Man) gets Nicholas a job at a Boys School.This turns out to be a rundown farm house, owned and run by Mr and Mrs Squeers.Wackford(Gregor Fisher) has a one false which looks really ugly.His wife (Pam Ferris)is fat and wears dirty clothes. On the journey to the school, Nick has to sit on the roof of a stage coach for part of the way.The last bit is done on a horse and cart. At his first meal,Nicholas only eats a slice of dry bread.The Squeers and ...

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