The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

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.

Subjects

  • boarding schools
  • british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • children's stories
  • classic literature
  • climatology
  • coming of age
  • continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • death
  • disinheritance
  • england
  • england, fiction
  • england love stories
  • english fiction
  • english literature
  • english love stories
  • english romance fiction
  • facsimiles
  • fathers
  • fiction
  • fiction, classics
  • fiction, coming of age
  • fiction, family life, general
  • general
  • littérature anglaise
  • long now manual for civilization
  • manners and customs
  • meteorology
  • nineteenth century
  • poor families
  • promptbooks
  • readers
  • recitations
  • schools
  • social conditions
  • social life
  • social life and customs
  • social live and customs
  • students
  • teachers
  • teachers, fiction
  • theatrical companies
  • tragedy
  • uncles
  • widows
  • young men