DICKENS, CHARLES
Nicholas Nickleby (Everyman's Library #238)
London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1949. Hardcover. A 1949 reprint of the 1907 edition. An Everyman's Library edition of the third novel by Charles Dickens (1812-1870), first published serially beginning in 1838. "Nicholas Nickleby" is centered around a young man who, due to the death of his father, must support his mother and sister. It has been described as ".perhaps the funniest novel in the English language" by Peter Ackroyd; while it also takes on the serious social issue of the maltreatment of children in English boarding schools. With an introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Entry 238 in Everyman's Library EL catalog no. 764 in their Fiction series, edited by the late Ernest Rhys. --- In EL binding style 3 with full carmine red cloth and gilt-stamped spine titling; blindstamped Eric Ravilious-designed 'shell' to cover and tan topstain. Text presented on extra-thin leaves. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With slight sunning to spine, else a clean, tightly-bound, sound copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xxx, 843, 4, 16 (ads) pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .
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