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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Version 3) by Charles DICKENS (1812 - 1870)
Genre(s): General Fiction
Read by: Peter John Keeble in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 44 - Mr. Ralph Nickleby cuts an old Acquaintance . .
00:34:39 - 45 - Containing Matter of a surprising Kind
01:04:20 - 46 - Throws some Light upon Nicholas's Love, but whether for Good or Evil the Reader must determine
01:38:18 - 47 - Mr. Ralph Nickleby has some confidential Intercourse with another old Friend. . .
02:15:17 - 48 - Being for the Benefit of Mr. Vincent Crummles, and positively his last Appearance on this Stage
02:42:03 - 49 - Chronicles the further Proceedings of the Nickleby Family, and the Sequel of the Adventure of the Gentleman in the Small-clothes
03:18:57 - 50 - Involves a serious Catastrophe
03:53:16 - 51 - The Project of Mr. Ralph Nickleby and his Friend approaching a successful Issue, becomes unexpectedly known to another Party . . .
04:20:28 - 52 - Nicholas despairs of rescuing Madeline Bray . . .
04:50:54 - 53 - Containing the further Progress of the Plot contrived by Mr. Ralph Nickleby and Mr. Arthur Gride
05:30:25 - 54 - The Crisis of the Project and its Result
05:57:34 - 55 - Of Family Matters, Cares, Hopes, Disappointments, and Sorrows
06:26:43 - 56 - Ralph Nickleby, baffled by his Nephew in his late Design, hatches a Scheme of Retaliation . . .
06:57:03 - 57 - How Ralph Nickleby's Auxiliary went about his Work, and how he prospered with it
Nicholas Nickleby was Dickens's third novel following on from Pickwick Papers and Oliver twist. It has a cast of wonderful characters that include Wackford Squeers, the reprehensible and villainous headmaster whose reign of terror at his school in Yorkshire resulted in the abuse and deaths of many of his unwanted and orphaned children, Mr Vincent Crummles and his hilariously inept touring company, the munificent Cheeryble brothers, Ralph Nickleby, Nicholas's uncle, a mean spirited man who is driven by avarice and irrational hatred of his nephew, Smike a boy brutalised by Squeers and his family leaving him mentally and physically handicapped and Mrs Nickleby, Nicholas's mother, who is pretentiously genteel and somewhat garrulous. There are many more finely drawn characters who combine to make this not only a comic masterpiece of the period but more than one love story threads its way through the dialogue. Probably what we would call today a ‘Romacom' and as such Nicholas Nickleby never ceases to delight. (Summary by Peter Keeble)
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