![]() Like Pickwick, Nicholas Nickleby is episodic and contains marvellous moments of comedy featuring humorous grotesques, but it also continues Dickens’ assault on flagrant social injustices and in particular the maltreatment of children. The resulting novel does not quite match this demand. While Pickwick had been an essentially comic novel, Twist was much darker, exposing the brutal side of human nature, However Dickens’ publishers Chapman and Hall stipulated that his third novel should be ‘of similar character and of the same extent and contents in point of quantity’ as Pickwick. ![]() Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39) was Charles Dickens’ third novel, following on from Pickwick Papers (1836-7) and Oliver Twist (1837-8). Nicholas Nickleby David Stuart Davies looks at Charles Dickens’s third novel ![]()
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