

On the other hand, Nicholas (Sr) marries and has two children Nicholas, our hero who is nineteen, and Kate, fourteen. Ralph heads of to the city where his sole focus is making money (unscrupulously of course). Godfrey came into a fortune when one of his relations died of which he left his house to his elder son Nicholas (Sr) and money to the younger Ralph. Our hero is of course Nicholas Nickleby, the grandson of one Godfrey Nickleby of Devonshire. This was I think only my second time reading it, but it was the first of Dickens’ novels which really got me hooked the first time I read it and made me pick up almost all the other Dickens novels.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is the third of Dickens’ completed novels and was first published in serial between 18.
