{"product_id":"nicholas-nickleby-a-dark-victorian-classic-of-cruelty-corruption-and-family-loyalty-hardcover","title":"Nicholas Nickleby: A Dark Victorian Classic of Cruelty, Corruption, and Family Loyalty - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Dickens\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNicholas Nickleby\u003c\/em\u003e is Charles Dickens's fierce and expansive novel of cruelty, exploitation, family loyalty, social corruption, and theatrical survival in Victorian England.\u003c\/strong\u003e After the death of his father, young Nicholas is forced to seek help from his cold and predatory uncle Ralph Nickleby, whose business dealings and moral emptiness draw the family into a world of debt, manipulation, and abuse. Nicholas's employment at Dotheboys Hall, the brutal Yorkshire school run by Wackford Squeers, exposes one of Dickens's most memorable attacks on institutional cruelty and the commercial mistreatment of children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Black Curtain, this should not be framed merely as a broad Victorian classic. Beneath the comic abundance and melodrama is a dark social novel of violence, predation, coercion, and moral rot. Ralph Nickleby belongs with Dickens's great figures of financial malice, while Squeers and Dotheboys Hall give the book its most savage indictment of respectable brutality. Around them, Dickens builds a crowded world of actors, schemers, dependents, villains, innocents, and survivors, moving from London counting-houses to provincial schools and theatrical companies with his characteristic energy and moral fury.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Dickens, Victorian social criticism, literary classics, dark comic fiction, and novels of institutional abuse, \u003cem\u003eNicholas Nickleby\u003c\/em\u003e remains one of Dickens's most vigorous early works: funny, angry, sentimental, grotesque, and driven by the belief that cruelty flourishes most easily when society agrees not to look too closely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a childhood blighted by poverty, commercial success came early to Charles Dickens (1812-1870). By the age of 24, he was an international sensation whose new novels were eagerly anticipated. Two centuries later, Dickens' popularity endures as readers revel in the warm humanity and rollicking humor of his tales of self-discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 508\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.25 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50377901474029,"sku":"9781515424611","price":51.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/pNVN_LWl1L9781515424611.webp?v=1785620118","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-ca\/products\/nicholas-nickleby-a-dark-victorian-classic-of-cruelty-corruption-and-family-loyalty-hardcover","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}