Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens · language: en

Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 12 · 10,194 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Bildungsromans · Boarding schools — Fiction · England — Fiction · England — Social life and customs — 19th century — Fiction

Words worth knowing: salver · ashy · libertine · dispossess · adjure · wen · tractable · foolery

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens AUTHOR’S PREFACE This story was begun, within a few months after the publication of the completed “Pickwick Papers.” There were, then, a good many cheap Yorkshire schools in existence.

There are very few now.

Of the monstrous neglect of education in England, and the disregard of it by the State as a means of forming good or bad citizens, and miserable or happy men, private schools long afforded a notable example.

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