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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Author:Charles Dickens Afterword by Steven Marcus. — The world of Dickens is a stage peopled by the most colorful characters and scenes that a novelist ever created. Nowhere is this more true than in Nicholas Nickleby. In this mesmerizing masterpiece, Dickens plays on the full scale of comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and suspense as he takes his gallant young hero on an od... more »yssey that extends from a nightmare boarding school to the gaudy London stage, from a magnificent country house to the squalid city slums. Filled with light and shadow, pitting the darkest villains and villainies against human beings of glowing nobility, Nicholas Nickleby had worked its magic for over a century, and today has won fresh recognition in an acclaimed theatrical triumph.« less