Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is an educational novel by Charles Dickens. After the death of his father, Nicholas Nickleby, with the help of his rich uncle Ralph Nickleby, gets into a boarding school Dotheboys Hall Academy in Yorkshire. Here Nicholas discovers that the school reminds more of a prison: children starve and go through cruel punishments. Nicholas gets to know a strange boy by the name of Smike whose secret of birth is one of the main topics of the novel. Smike and our hero leave the school. After a lot of adventures, Nick meets nice businessmen, Cheeryble brothers, who help him find his way in the life

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 1388
• Altersempfehlung: ab 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783965443921
• Artikelnr.: 54568216

Autorenporträt

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsea, England. His parents were middle-class and suffered financially. When Dickens was twelve years old, his family faced financial crisis, which forced him to quit school and work in a shoe polish manufacturing factory. Dickens's mother and siblings eventually joined him. Dickens continued to work at the factory for several months. In the factory the horrific conditions haunted him throughout his life. Dickens never forgot the day when a senior boy in the warehouse took it upon himself to instruct Dickens how to do his work more efficiently. As a young adult, Dickens worked as a law clerk and later as a journalist. He perceived the darker social conditions of the Industrial Revolution. A collection of semi-fictional sketches entitled Sketches by Boz earned him recognition as a writer. Dickens began to make money from his writing when he published his first novel, The Pickwick Papers in 1836. The Pickwick Papers was hugely popular and Dickens became a literary celebrity at the age of twenty-five. Dickens's themes included wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. In 1836, Dickens married Catherine Hogarth, but after twenty years of marriage and their ten children, he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, an actress many years his junior. Soon after, Dickens and his wife separated. Dickens remained a prolific writer to the end of his life, and his novels - Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Bleak House - continued to earn critical and popular acclaim. He died of a stroke in 1870, at the age of 58.