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Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1839
Pages
Pages 820

A penniless young man is sent by his moneylending uncle to teach at a Yorkshire school where boys are starved and beaten, thrashes the schoolmaster, runs off with strolling players, and comes back to save his sister and ruin the uncle.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human natur.
Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens

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