Nicholas Nickleby; or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens

Nicholas Nickleby; or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens. Originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839, it was Dickens's third novel.
The novel centres on the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies. Nicholas Nickleby is Charles Dickens's third published novel. He returned to his favourite publishers and to the format that was considered so successful with The Pickwick Papers. The story first appeared in monthly parts, after which it was issued in one volume. The style is considered to be episodic and humorous, though the second half of the novel becomes more serious and tightly plotted. Dickens began writing Nickleby while still working on Oliver Twist and while the mood is considerably lighter, his depiction of the Yorkshire school run by Wackford Squeers is as moving and influential as those of the workhouse and criminal underclass in Twist.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) byl proslulý anglický spisovatel a sociální kritik, všeobecn- považovaný za jednoho z nejv-tších spisovatel- viktoriánské éry. Dickens se narodil v anglickém Portsmouthu a prožil t-žké d-tství poznamenané finan-ní nouzí, která pozd-ji do znäné míry ovlivnila jeho tvorbu. Dickens se proslavil sériov- vydávanými romány, v nichž dokázal spojit humor, pronikavý spole-enský post-eh a hluboce lidské charaktery. Jeho díla osv-tlují problémy chudých, nedostatky institucionálních systém- a velké rozdíly mezi spole-enskými vrstvami v Anglii 19. století. Dnes je Dickens oslavován nejen pro svá poutavá vypráv-ní, ale také pro sv-j trvalý vliv na literaturu a spole-nost.