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franklekens 's review for:
Nicholas Nickleby
by Charles Dickens
If you want to get into Dickens, don't start with this, but with a later novel. One of the best things about this was the introduction by Chesterton, included as a postscript in my edition. This brilliantly phrased evaluation is available online here. Such flair and rhetoric skill – so well done I can even forgive him the jibes at evolutionists' expense, which have nothing to do with the subject at hand, but which apparently he can't do without.
As for Nicholas Nickleby, it's still very much the work of an author learning the craft. As Chesterton says, it's not a novel yet, it's the work of an author deciding he wants to be a novelist. The novels are yet to come – and for the really great novels people had to wait a few more years.
Enjoyable enough as it is, though.
As for Nicholas Nickleby, it's still very much the work of an author learning the craft. As Chesterton says, it's not a novel yet, it's the work of an author deciding he wants to be a novelist. The novels are yet to come – and for the really great novels people had to wait a few more years.
Enjoyable enough as it is, though.