Life and adventures of Nicholas Nicklby

The third novel by Charles Dickens, “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklby” (1838–1839), develops the topic of unhappy childhood, begun a year earlier in the “Adventures of Oliver Twist”. The book tells about the fate of the young man, who, after the death of his father, the rich, eager and cruel uncle Ralph Nicklby sends the teacher to the Dotbo-Hall Academy-a rural school for boys in Yorkshire. Outraged by the harsh methods of upbringing in Dotbo-Hall, reminiscent of a prison rather than a school, Nicholas escapes from there in the company of a demented homeless girl Smike. Thus begins the path of the wandering of the protagonist, during which he will get acquainted with Gregsbury’s dirty politician, to be the actor of a wandering theater, to work with a clerk in the office of the rich businessmen of the Chiribel brothers and find out a shameful secret from his uncle’s past - a secret hidden and from Ralph Niklby himself