When 19-year old Nicholas Nickleby is left destitute after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby offers little help and proves to be both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, leaving Nicholas to make his own way in the world.
Nicholas' adventures take him to Yorkshire boarding school, Dotheboys Hall, and then back to London, meeting an extraordinary gallery of rogues and eccentrics along the way. Like many of Dickens' novels, Nicholas Nickleby is characterised by his outrage at cruelty and social injustice, but it is also a flamboyantly exuberant work, revealing his comic genius.
As an Audio Show - free for members - we're releasing Nicholas Nickleby in 19 parts, as Dickens first wrote it. When you add this title to your library, a new episode will appear daily from 27th September.
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(Audible Original, 25 September 2018, 36 hours 20 minutes, audiobook, Audible Show, freebie from @audibleuk
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I've never been what you'd call a Dickens fan with the exception of A Christmas Carol so I don't know what I expected with this. My partner's a fierce fan though so I thought I'd give Dickens the benefit of the doubt. I needed have bothered. This bored the shit out of me. It was a real slog to listen to for almost 37 hours. I'm pissed off because I'll never get that lost time back and I could have been listening to something enjoyable. The book is OOT and melodramatic verging on ridiculous at times. The good characters are simpering, saccharin nice and made me want to barf into a sick bag. The bad characters are buffoon-like villains. I'm sorry to all those drooling Dickens fans out there but this was a piece of old shit.
