Nicholas Nickleby (Annotated)

Nicholas Nickleby is Dickens's exuberant third novel, a panoramic satire of early Victorian England that follows its young hero through poverty, theatrical adventure, family loyalty, and moral trial. Combining melodrama, comedy, social protest, and picaresque movement, the novel exposes the brutality of Yorkshire boarding schools, the greed of speculators, and the precariousness of genteel respect...