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Nicholas Nickleby is Charles Dickens's third novel and brilliantly combines his exuberant comic gifts with his crusading social conscience.Nicholas is a young man of "impetuous temper and little or no experience" who saves his family from dire misfortune at the hands of his villainous uncle, Ralph. And all around him is a great gallery if Dickensian types, who range from the farcical - the Mantalinis, the Lillyvicks and the Crummles family of travelling actors - the pathetic - Smike, the maltreated schoolboy - to the downright wicked - Sir Mulberry Hawk and Wackford Squeers, the infamous headmaster of Dotheboys Hall.
Mixing comedy and horror, melodrama and acid satire, Dickens depicts a world in which the exploitation and abuse of youth and innocence cannot ever fully vanquish kindness, affection and the joyful energies of life.