Nicholas Nickleby

Synopsis

'the novel has everything: an absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics, set in a london where vast wealth and desperate poverty live cheek-by-jowl' jasper rees, the timeswhen nicholas nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But ralph nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and nicholas finds himself forced to make his own way in the world.