Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens
Aug 2023 · RB Media · Narrated by Mario Otero
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Puede que la vida de los Nickleby no sea la más interesante, pero sin duda es apacible... hasta que el padre muere y la familia debe ir a Londres para pedir ayuda a un mezquino pariente. A cambio, este pone una condición: su sobrino trabajará como profesor en una escuela de Yorkshire. El joven e impulsivo Nicholas parte lleno de entusiasmo, pero pronto descubre que allí el director se asemeja más a un carcelero dispuesto a atormentar a sus alumnos y que a él, para su desgracia, se le da muy mal acatar órdenes que desprecia. Actores teatrales de carácter dramático, viejos usureros, amigos (o no) que se retan a duelos, damas acorraladas por pretendientes excéntricos, caballeros perseguidos por señoritas de viva imaginación y una serie de conspiraciones se entretejen en una incisiva sátira que no sólo cosechó un éxito incuestionable nada más publicarse, sino que consiguió frenar los malos tratos de las escuelas de Yorkshire y, en la actualidad, sigue fascinando a los lectores por su retrato irónico de lo que sucede cuando se valora más el afán de lucro que el de ayudar al prójimo. Escrita justo después de Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby es una obra magistral que ahora se presenta en español con una nueva traducción íntegra y las ilustraciones originales de Phiz.
About the author
Charles Dickens, perhaps the best British novelist of the Victorian era, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England on February 7, 1812. His happy early childhood was interrupted when his father was sent to debtors' prison, and young Dickens had to go to work in a factory at age twelve. Later, he took jobs as an office boy and journalist before publishing essays and stories in the 1830s. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, made him a famous and popular author at the age of twenty-five. Subsequent works were published serially in periodicals and cemented his reputation as a master of colorful characterization, and as a harsh critic of social evils and corrupt institutions. His many books include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, and the couple had nine children before separating in 1858 when he began a long affair with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. Despite the scandal, Dickens remained a public figure, appearing often to read his fiction. He died in 1870, leaving his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.
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