26 Facts About Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby or The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839.

Nicholas Nickleby returned to his favourite publishers and to the format that was considered so successful with The Pickwick Papers.

Nicholas Nickleby gets Nicholas a very low-paying job as an assistant to Wackford Squeers, who runs the school Dotheboys Hall in Yorkshire.

Nicholas Nickleby is initially wary of Squeers because he is gruff and violent towards his young charges, but he tries to quell his suspicions.

Once he arrives in Yorkshire, Nicholas Nickleby comes to realise that Squeers is running a scam: he takes in unwanted children for a high fee, and starves and mistreats them while using the money sent by their parents, who only want to get them out of their way, to pad his own pockets.

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Fanny uses her new-found loathing of Nicholas Nickleby to make life difficult for the only friend he has at the school: Smike, whom Squeers takes to beating more and more frequently.

Nicholas Nickleby seeks out the aid of Newman Noggs, who shows him a letter that Fanny Squeers has written to Ralph.

Noggs tells Nicholas Nickleby, who is intent on confronting his uncle, that Ralph is out of town and advises him to find a job.

Nicholas Nickleby goes to an employment office, where he encounters a strikingly beautiful girl.

Nicholas Nickleby confronts his uncle, who vows to give no financial assistance to the Nicklebys as long as Nicholas stays with them.

Nicholas Nickleby's hand forced, Nicholas agrees to leave London, but warns Ralph that a day of reckoning will one day come between them.

Nicholas Nickleby is the new juvenile lead, and playwright, with the task of adapting French tragedies into English and then modifying them for the troupe's minimal dramatic abilities.

Nicholas Nickleby enjoys a flirtation with his Juliet, the lovely Miss Snevellici.

Nicholas Nickleby's finds employment as the companion of the social-climbing Mrs Wittiterly.

Nicholas Nickleby uses Lord Frederick, who is infatuated with her, to discover where she lives from Ralph.

Nicholas Nickleby is about to succeed in this plot when Mrs Nickleby enters Ralph's office, and the two rakes switch their attentions from Kate's uncle to her mother, successfully worming their way into Mrs Nickleby's company and gaining access to the Wittiterly house.

Nicholas Nickleby is about to search the city for them when he accidentally overhears Hawk and Lord Frederick rudely toasting Kate in a coffeehouse.

Nicholas Nickleby is able to glean from their conversation what has happened, and confronts them.

When he attempts to leave, Nicholas Nickleby follows him out, and leaps onto the running board of his carriage, demanding his name.

Hawk strikes him with a riding crop, and Nicholas Nickleby loses his temper, returning the blow and spooking the horses, causing the carriage to crash.

Nicholas Nickleby collects Kate from the Wittiterlys, and with their mother and Smike, they move back into Miss LaCreevy's house.

Nicholas Nickleby dismisses it as an illusion but it is later revealed that Smike was right.

Nicholas Nickleby refuses their help, but is summoned back to their offices that evening and told that Smike is dead.

Nicholas Nickleby's eventually left him after bearing him a son, whom he entrusted to Brooker, who was then his clerk.

Nicholas Nickleby becomes a partner in the Cheerybles' firm and marries Madeline.

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Nicholas Nickleby was originally issued in 19 monthly numbers; the last was a double-number and cost two shillings instead of one.