A review by jillkahnwald
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

2.0

I am not sure I can describe the plot of this book, because it is not very strong. It concerns Nicholas Nickleby's various jobs and encounters as he comes of age, and how he and his sister suffer under their wicked uncle Ralph. Eventually everyone lives happily ever after, as all Dickens novels end...but to what purpose? It is difficult to relate to the characters and this is one of the less universally relatable Dickens novels. It seems as if Dickens did not even know what to do with a few of the characters, and some of them served little purpose. They disappear from the story and then come back for a scene just to close out their history, but they should not have been there in the first place. The novel is full of extraneous scenes as well, and feels disjointed.