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OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS

CHARLES DICKENS

Nicholas Nickleby

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
PAUL SCHLICKE

OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Publication Information: Book Title: Nicholas Nickleby. Contributors: Charles Dickens - author, Paul Schlicke - editor. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1990. Page Number: iii.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

A CHRONOLOGY OF CHARLES DICKENS

PREFACE (1839)

PREFACE (1848)

Chapter I Introduces All the Rest

Chapter II Of Mr. Ralph Nickleby, and His Establishment, and His Undertakings. and of a Great Joint Stock Company of Vast National Importance

Chapter III Mr. Ralph Nickleby Receives Sad Tidings of His Brother, but Bears Up Nobly Against the Intelligence Communicated to Him. The Reader is Informed How He Liked Nicholas, Who is Herein Introduced, And How Kindly He Proposed to Make His Fortune at Once

Chaprer IV Nicholas and His Uncle (to Secure the Fortune Without Loss of Time) Wait Upon Mr. Wackford Squeers, the Yorkshire Schoolmaster

Chapter V Nicholas Starts for Yorkshire. of His Leave-Taking and His Fellow-Travellers, and What Befell Them on the Road

Chapter VI In Which the Occurrence of the Accident Mentioned in the Last Chapter, Affords an Opportunity to a Couple of Gentlemen to Tell Stories Against Each Other

Chapter VII Mr. and Mrs. Squeers at Home

Chapter VIII Of the Internal Economy of Dotheboys Hall

Chapter IX Of Miss Squeers, Mrs. Squeers, Master Squeers, and Mr. Squeers; And of Various Matters and Persons Connected No Less with The Squeerses Than with Nicholas Nickleby

Chapter X How Mr. Ralph Nickleby Provided for His Niece and Sister-In-Law

Chapter XI Newman Noggs Inducts Mrs. and Miss Nickleby into Their New Dwelling in the City

Chapter XII Whereby the Reader Will Be Enabled to Trace the Further Course Of Miss Fanny Squeers's Love, and to Ascertain Whether It Ran Smooth Or Otherwise

Chapter XIII Nicholas Varies the Monotony of Dotheboys Hall by a Most Vigorous and Remarkable Proceeding, Which Leads to Consequences Of Some Importance

Chapter XV Acquaints the Reader with the Cause and Origin of the Interruption Described in the Last Chapter, and with Some Other Matters Necessary to Be Known

Chapter XVI Nicholas Seeks to Employ Himself in a New Capacity, and Being Unsuccessful, Accepts an Engagement as Tutor in a Private Family

Chapter XVII Follows the Fortunes of Miss Nickleby

Chapter XVIII Miss Knag, After Doating on Kate Nickleby for Three Whole Days, Makes Up Her Mind to Hate Her for Evermore. the Causes Which Lead Miss Knag to Form This Resolution

Chapter XIX Descriptive of a Dinner at Mr. Ralph Nickleby's, and of The Manner in Which the Company Entertained Themselves, Before Dinner, at Dinner, and After Dinner

Chapter XX Wherein Nicholas at Length Encounters His Uncle, to Whom He Expresses His Sentiments with Much Candour. His Resolution

Chapter XXI Madame Mantalini Finds Herself in a Situation of Some Difficulty, And Miss Nickleby Finds Herself in No Situation at All

Chapter XXII Nicholas, Accompanied by Smike, Sallies Forth to Seek His Fortune. He Encounters Mr. Vincent Crummles; and Who He Was, is Herein Made Manifest

Chapter XXIII Treats of the Company of Mr. Vincent Crummles, and of His Affairs, Domestic and Theatrical

Chapter XXIV Of the Great Bespeak for Miss Snevellicci, and the First Appearance Of Nicholas Upon Any Stage

Chapter XXV Concerning a Young Lady from London, Who Joins the Company, And an Elderly Admirer Who Follows in Her Train; with an Affecting Ceremony Consequent on Their Arrival

Chapter XXVI Is Fraught with Some Danger to Miss Nickleby's Peace of Mind

Chapter XXVII Mrs. Nickleby Becomes Acquainted with Messrs. Pyke and Pluck, Whose Affection and Interest Are Beyond All Bounds

Chapter XXVIII Miss Nickleby, Rendered Desperate by the Persecution of Sir Mulberry Hawk, and the Complicated Difficulties and Distresses Which Surround Her, Appeals, as a Last Resource, to Her Uncle For Protection

Chapter XXIX Of the Proceedings of Nicholas, and Certain Internal Divisions In The Company of Mr. Vincent Crummles

Chapter XXX Festivities Are Held in Honour of Nicholas, Who Suddenly Withdraws Himself from the Society of Mr. Vincent Crummles and His Theatrical Companions

Chapter XXXI Of Ralph Nickleby and Newman Noggs, and Some Wise Precautions, the Success or Failure of Which Will Appear in the Sequel

Chapter XXXII Relating Chiefly to Some Remarkable Conversation, and Some Remarkable Proceedings to Which It Gives Rise

Chapter XXXIII In Which Mr. Ralph Nickleby is Relieved, by a Very Expeditious Process, from All Commerce with His Relations

Chapter XXXIV Wherein Mr. Ralph Nickleby is Visited by Persons with Whom The Reader Has Been Already Made Acquainted

Chapter XXXV Smike Becomes Known to Mrs. Nickleby and Kate. Nicholas Also Meets with New Acquaintances. Brighter Days Seem to Dawn Upon The Family

Chapter XXXVI Private and Confidential; Relating to Family Matters. Showing How Mr. Kenwigs Underwent Violent Agitation, and How Mrs. Kenwigs Was as Well as Could Be Expected

Chapter XXXVII Nicholas Finds Further Favour in the Eyes of the Brothers Cheeryble And Mr. Timothy Linkinwater. the Brothers Give a Banquet On A Great Annual Occasion. Nicholas, on Returning Home from It, Receives a Mysterious and Important Disclosure from the Lips Of Mrs. Nickleby

Chapter XXXVIII Comprises Certain Particulars Arising Out of a Visit of Condolence, Which May Prove Important Hereafter. Smike Unexpectedly Encounters a Very Old Friend, Who Invites Him to His House, and Will Take No Denial

Chapter XL In Which Nicholas Falls in Love. He Employs a Mediator, Whose Proceedings Are Crowned with Unexpected Success, Excepting in One Solitary Particular

Chapter XLI Containing Some Romantic Passages Between Mrs. Nickleby And The Gentleman in the Small-Clothes Next Door

Chapter XLII Illustrative of the Convivial Sentiment, That the Best of Friends Must Sometimes Part

Chapter XLIII Officiates as a Kind of Gentleman Usher, in Bringing Various People Together

Chapter XLIV Mr. Ralph Nickleby Cuts an Old Acquaintance. It Would Also Appear from the Contents Hereof, That a Joke, Even Between Husband And Wife, May Be Sometimes Carried Too Far

Chapter XLV Containing Matter of a Surprising Kind

Chapter XLVI Throws Some Light Upon Nicholas's Love; but Whether for Good Or Evil, the Reader Must Determine

Chapter XLVII Mr. Ralph Nickleby Has Some Confidential Intercourse with Another Old Friend. They Concert Between Them a Project, Which Promises Well for Both

Chapter XLVIII Being for the Benefit of Mr. Vincent Crummles, and Positively His Last Appearance on This Stage

Chapter Xlix Chronicles the Further Proceedings of the Nickleby Family, and The Sequel of the Adventure of the Gentleman in the Small-Clothes

Chapter L Involves a Serious Catastrophe

Chapter LI The Project of Mr. Ralph Nickleby and His Friend, Approaching A Successful Issue, Becomes Unexpectedly Known to Another Party Not Admitted into Their Confidence

Chapter LII Nicholas Despairs of Rescuing Madeline Bray, but Plucks Up His Spirits Again, and Determines to Attempt It. Domestic Intelligence Of the Kenwigses and Lillyvicks

Chapter LIII Containing the Further Progress of the Plot Contrived by Mr. Ralph Nickleby and Mr. Arthur Gride

Chapter Liv The Crisis of the Project and Its Result

Chapter LV Of Family Matters, Cares, Hopes, Disappointments, and Sorrows

Chapter LVI Ralph Nickleby, Baffled by His Nephew in His Late Design, Hatches A Scheme of Retaliation Which Accident Suggests to Him, and Takes Into His Counsels a Tried Auxiliary

Chapter LVII How Ralph Nickleby's Auxiliary Went About His Work, and How He Prospered with It

Chapter LVIII In Which One Scene of This History is Closed

Chapter LIX The Plots Begin to Fail, and Doubts and Dangers to Disturb The Plotter

Chapter LX The Dangers Thicken, and the Worst is Told

Chapter LXI Wherein Nicholas and His Sister Forfeit the Good Opinion of All Worldly and Prudent People

Chapter LXII Ralph Makes One Last Appointment--And Keeps It

Chapter LXIII The Brothers Cheeryble Make Various Declarations for Themselves And Others. Tim Linkinwater Makes a Declaration for Himself

Chapter LXIV An Old Acquaintance is Recognised Under Melancholy Circumstances, And Dotheboys Hall Breaks Up for Ever

Chapter LXV Conclusion

Appendix A The Nickleby 'Proclamation'

Appendix B Running Headlines for the 1867 Edition

EXPLANATORY NOTES

TEXTUAL NOTES

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