Name: Nicholas Nickleby (Everyman' S Library Classics Series)
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Author: John Carey
ISBN: 9780679423072

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Nicholas Nickleby (Everyman' S Library Classics Series)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Dickens

Introduction by

John Carey

Publisher

Everyman's Library

Year

1993

Language

English

Pages

914

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.0 x 13.3 x 4.3 cm

Weight

0.83 kg.

ISBN

0679423079

ISBN13

9780679423072

Synopsis "Nicholas Nickleby (Everyman' S Library Classics Series) "

Charles Dickens had an understanding of mid-Victorian society second to none, and genius and energy massive enough to make the absurdities and terrors of that society come alive on the page. Nicholas Nickleby, with its episodes of chicanery in finance and education, and the dramatic intensity with which it tells the story of its openhearted young protagonist and its frightening villain, the magnificently rendered Ralph Nickleby, represents Dickens at his clear-eyed, indignant, and mesmerizing best. When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless by the death of his father, he appeals to his Uncle Ralph to help him and his mother and sister. But Ralph conceives a violent hatred of the young man, and his schemes of persecution haunt Nicholas through a series of picaresque adventures, including a job as a tutor at a horrific school for unwanted boys run by the cruel Wackford Squeers and a stint as a member of the eccentric Crummles family theater troupe. Without shying away from the grimmer aspects of the world Nicholas encounters on his path to eventual happiness, the story remains one of Dickens's most high-spirited and exuberant. This edition reprints the original Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton and includes thirty-nine illustrations by Phiz.

Charles Dickens

(Author)

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Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870) was born in Portsmouth and was the eldest son of a Royal Navy clerk. At twelve, his father's imprisonment for debt forced him to work in a blacking factory. His education was sporadic: he taught himself shorthand, worked as a clerk in a law office, and eventually became a parliamentary correspondent for the Morning Chronicle.

Coming from a humble family, "good old Charles" did not receive formal education until he was nine, and was heavily criticized by the critics of the time for being too self-taught. His life took an unexpected turn with his father's imprisonment for debts, moving his family to live with him in jail, allowed at that time by British laws. At the age of 12, he was already considered fit to start working in a dye factory. Although his family's situation had improved, his mother insisted he keep working there, inspiring him to write one of his masterpieces, David Copperfield.

His articles, later collected in Scenes from London Life by "Boz" (1836-1837), were very successful, and with the appearance in 1837 of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Dickens became a true publishing phenomenon. Novels such as Oliver Twist (1837-1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), and Barnaby Rudge (1841) gained enormous popularity, as did some travel chronicles, such as Pictures from Italy (1846). With Dombey and Son (1846-1848) he began his mature period, of which good examples are David Copperfield (1849-1850), his first novel in the first person and his favorite, in which he developed some autobiographical episodes; Bleak House (1852-1853); Little Dorrit (1855-1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865). He died at Gad's Hill, his country house in Higham, in the county of Kent.

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John Carey

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John Carey es un reconocido crítico literario, académico y escritor británico, nacido el 5 de abril de 1934 en Londres, Inglaterra. Estudió en St John's College, Oxford, donde destacó por su interés en la literatura inglesa. Más adelante se convirtió en profesor de literatura en University of Oxford, institución en la que enseñó durante muchos años y desde la cual influyó en generaciones de estudiantes e investigadores.

Carey es conocido por su estilo claro y accesible al analizar obras literarias y por cuestionar la idea de que la literatura deba ser exclusiva para una élite intelectual. Entre sus libros más destacados se encuentran The Intellectuals and the Masses, donde examina la relación entre los intelectuales y la sociedad, y What Good Are the Arts?, en el que reflexiona sobre el valor del arte y la cultura.

Además de su trabajo académico, escribió reseñas y artículos para importantes periódicos y revistas británicas, convirtiéndose en una figura influyente en el debate cultural. Sus investigaciones abarcan autores como John Milton y la literatura inglesa moderna. Gracias a su capacidad para explicar ideas complejas con sencillez, John Carey es considerado uno de los críticos literarios más importantes del Reino Unido y una referencia en el estudio de la literatura contemporánea.

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