DICKENS, Charles.

£2,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. First edition, bound from the parts, in a very attractive contemporary binding, of one of Dickens's most politically pointed novels. Writing after the successes of Pickwick Papers (1837) and Oliver Twist (1838), Dickens "did not want to lose either his reputation as a topical and polemical novelist or his fame as a comic one. So in Nicholas Nickleby, he devised a plot capacious enough to include both aspects of his genius" (Ackroyd, p. 254). The novel was serialized from April 1838 to October 1839 and published in book form on 23 October.

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