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Nicholas Nickleby

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When 19-year old Nicholas Nickleby is left destitute 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 offers little help and proves to be both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, leaving Nicholas to make his own way in the world.

Nicholas' adventures take him to Yorkshire boarding school, Dotheboys Hall, and then back to London, meeting an extraordinary gallery of rogues and eccentrics along the way. Like many of Dickens' novels, Nicholas Nickleby is characterised by his outrage at cruelty and social injustice, but it is also a flamboyantly exuberant work, revealing his comic genius.

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Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

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I downloaded this because it was free but now I’m looking for some more Dickens no matter the price! The narration is wonderful with the narrator brilliantly capturing the many characters with his voices. It took me a couple of chapters to get into it but after that I’ve been champing at the bit to get back to the story. I haven’t read any Dickens since I was at school. The language and sentence construction is elaborate and ornate but hearing the story makes it more accessible to busy lives. I’m sad to have finished it. Or, D Dickens might have put it - I am in a forlorn and mournful state at the sad prospect of no longer having such a book to read. Loved it.

Totally absorbing

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Kobna Holdbrook Smith’s performance of the huge array of very different characters is utterly outstanding. Downloaded because I planned to spend more time with classics and had never read and this is the best way I can imagine to do it. Will be looking out for more.

Outstanding

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...... I thoroughly enjoyed this Dickens classic.

It is brilliantly narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.
He really brought the characters to life. Good production too.

An absolute classic......

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wonderful narration.i will look for more of his work. lovely to revisit these classics. Thank you audible.

wonderful narration. I will look for more of his

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Brilliant narrator who can make an old familiar story as gripping as if the first time I as read it.

Best rendition of a classic tale. Bravo!

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