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Nicholas Nickleby

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Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
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Summary

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 first encountered Dickens when very young, not having the experience and knowledge that age brings to appreciate this brilliant author. This Audible recording, read most excellently by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, was brought to life and made more vivid and enthralling by the enthusiasm and care with which he performed it. The story is a long one and describes a time, not dissimilar to today, when the greed of those in power wreaks cruelty and poverty on the poor and weak in society. The most fantastic story, with wonderful names such as Wackford Squires the schoolmaster and Sir Tumley Snuffin the doctor, twists and turns and entertains. Dickens makes it clear, with a surprisingly happy ending, that those who commit evil deeds will in the end get their comeuppance. I will be looking for more books, and hopefully more Dickens, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Excellent reading of a classic tale

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I never write reviews, but I was so overwhelmed and speechless after listening to Kobna Holdbrook-Smith’s rendition of Nicholas Nickleby that I just have to applaud him!
Wonderful, wonderful story, beautifully told! I listened for what seemed like weeks and now that I’ve finished i am really missing the story and KHS voice filling my ears.
I was always a bit reserved about Dickens (for no apparent reason - maybe I was a bit daunted) but I just could not get enough of his language characters and storyline. I have all of Audibles Dickens Collection in my wish list now. Bleak House is next!!

My first Dickens novel

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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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The performance of an old favourite is wonderful; I cannot imagine a better, more virtuous, rendering of the story.

Brilliant

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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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