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Nicholas Nickleby is newly employed as a teacher at Dotheboys'' Hall in Yorkshire thanks to his manipulative and avaricious uncle Ralph, a businessman. There he witnesses the cruel treatment of boys at the hands of despotic headmaster Wackford Squeers and his wife. In coming to the defence of one boy, Smike, Nicholas assaults Squeers. Thinking he has killed him, he escapes with Smike to London and on to Portsmouth where the pair join the Crummles Theatre Company.Large flexible cast

Nicholas Nickleby

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      Publisher Samuel French Ltd
      Published 11 January 2012
      ISBN-13 9780573113154
      978-0573113154
      ISBN-10 0573113157
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      Books by Charles Dickens

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      Book Synopsis
      Nicholas Nickleby is newly employed as a teacher at Dotheboys'' Hall in Yorkshire thanks to his manipulative and avaricious uncle Ralph, a businessman. There he witnesses the cruel treatment of boys at the hands of despotic headmaster Wackford Squeers and his wife. In coming to the defence of one boy, Smike, Nicholas assaults Squeers. Thinking he has killed him, he escapes with Smike to London and on to Portsmouth where the pair join the Crummles Theatre Company.Large flexible cast

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