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cdickens (8)in #nicholas • 8 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #9/456
He even has Nicholas do so in conversation with the ‘literary gentleman’, that is, the hack plagiarist who has dramatized ‘two hundred and forty-seven novels as fast as they had…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • 15 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #8/456
Rather, he is asked to collude in a childishly simple set of codes, which require, for instance, that the Indian Savage (Mr Folair) indicate his admiration for the Maiden (the…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • 23 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #7/456
‘She calls me cruel – me – me – who for her sake will become a demd damp, moist, unpleasant body!’ exclaimed Mr Mantalini.Like Mrs Nickleby’s recollections, such flights of fancy…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #6/456
Whereas the London of Dickens’s later novels tends to be given focus by a single institution – such as Chancery or the Marshalsea – whose narrative or symbolic significance…
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cdickens (8)in #shakespeare • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #5/456
She leaps into a discussion of Shakespeare at the opera by recalling a trip she made to Stratford in a post-chaise:‘Was it a post-chaise though!’ said Mrs Nickleby, considering;…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #4/456
In addition, the book throws up an astonishing variety of minor characters whom Dickens hits off with insouciant brilliance: Mortimer Knag, Mrs Grudden, Mrs Blockson, Mr Snittle…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #3/456
Such direct methods serve him less well in his struggles with his Uncle Ralph, who represents a more nebulous evil that Dickens finds more difficult to define and confront. As…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #2/456
I was always curious about them – fell, long afterwards, and at sundry times, into the way of hearing more about them – at last, having an audience, resolved to write about…
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cdickens (8)in #dickens • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby #1/456
INTRODUCTIONA few weeks before the opening number of Nicholas Nicklebywas due to be published on 31 March 1838, Dickens issued a three-page pseudo-legal statement that warned of…
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