nhoff 's review for:

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

5.0

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This may be my favorite Dickens novel to date. It is funny and heartbreaking and piercingly perceptive. The story is classic Dickens with a socially conscious, morally upright yet penniless protagonist thwarted at every turn by a grasping, conniving and morally corrupt man of power and wealth who also happens to be the young man's uncle. Although the story was written and is set in a time long gone, Dickens' keen understanding of man's motivations and character are as pertinent now as ever.