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A review by bryce_is_a_librarian
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
4.0
Kate Nickleby, the original girl with headphones on.
PS. Is Mrs. Nickleby the shittiest of Dicken's litany of shitty parents?
In many ways this is the most Dickensian of Dicken's novels. The blank of the lead. The digressions that are clearly there to allow another month's chapter for another month's salary. The boring romantic lead (Chesterton thought she was one dimensional and idealized, Chesterton). It's among the darkest takes on Dicken's cherished domesticity. Men ruin women. Women ruin men. The old use society's expectations to hold the young hostage. The young are too cowardly to revolt against said expectations.
But it is also Dickensian in its humor, vibrancy and its truth, in its righteous anger and its fascination with people. In its generosity to all but the most irremediable members of humanity.
PS. Is Mrs. Nickleby the shittiest of Dicken's litany of shitty parents?
In many ways this is the most Dickensian of Dicken's novels. The blank of the lead. The digressions that are clearly there to allow another month's chapter for another month's salary. The boring romantic lead (Chesterton thought she was one dimensional and idealized, Chesterton). It's among the darkest takes on Dicken's cherished domesticity. Men ruin women. Women ruin men. The old use society's expectations to hold the young hostage. The young are too cowardly to revolt against said expectations.
But it is also Dickensian in its humor, vibrancy and its truth, in its righteous anger and its fascination with people. In its generosity to all but the most irremediable members of humanity.