Tantor Unabridged Classics: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Audiobook)

from Kristelh

A picaresque novel by Dickens gives us a smorgasboard of delightfully crafted characters. The good the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. Dickens tells the story of a widow and her two children who seek help from her deceased husband's brother and are treated meanly and stingily by him. A social co...

from santhony

It was a happy day when I, for whatever reason, elected to sample Charles Dickens. Having read A Tale of Two Cities in high school, I digressed to more popular fiction (Michener, Clavell, McMurtry, King, Grisham), as well as periods of science fiction and even non-fiction (Ambrose, McCollough for...

from souloftherose

This was Dickens' third novel which he started writing in 1838, while he was finishing Oliver Twist, and finished writing in 1839, while he was starting The Old Curiosity Shop. Like most of his novels, it was originally published in monthly instalments before being published in a single volume. I...

from PensiveCat

I am glad I chose Nicholas Nickleby to be the first Dickens book to complete on my own (not counting the required 6th grade reading of A Christmas Carol). Sure, there's the downtrodden miserable children and nasty older men, but I didn't have the droopy feeling of depression I thought I'd feel wh...

from EadieB

I found Nicholas Nickelby to be a very entertaining book with lots of humor. It is a long book but holds your attention because of the quirky characters that Dickens is noted for. In Nicholas Nickelby, Dickens is showing us the social injustice mainly to children. The theme of good vs. evil is al...