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NICHOLAS
NICKELBY
Charles Dickens
ELECBOOK CLASSICS
ebc0009. Charles Dickens: Nicholas Nickelby
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THE LIFE AND
ADVENTURES OF
NICHOLAS
NICKLEBY
containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes,
Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings plete Career
of the Nickleby Family
by Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby 4
Contents
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AUTHOR’S PREFACE
12
Chapter 1. Introduces all the Rest. ...................................................19
Chapter 2. Of Mr Ralph Nickleby, and his
Establishments, and his Undertakings, and of a great
Joint pany of vast national Importance. ........................26
Chapter 3. Mr Ralph Nickleby receives Sad Tidings of
his Brother, but bears up nobly against the Intelligence
communicated to him. The Reader is informed how he
liked Nicholas, who is herein introduced, and how
kindly he proposed to make his Fortune at once.............................42
Chapter 4. Nicholas and his Uncle (to secure the
Fortune without loss of time) wait upon Mr Wackford
Squeers, the Yorkshire Schoolmaster. ..............................................58
Chapter 5. Nicholas starts for Yorkshire. Of his Leave-
taking and his Fellow-Travellers, and what befell them
on the Road............................................................................................76
Chapter 6. In which the Occurrence of the Accident
mentioned in the last Chapter, affords an Opportunity
to a couple of Gentlemen to tell Stories against each
other........................................................................................................91
Chapter 7. Mr and Mrs S