Nicholas Nickleby
- 768
- Pages
- about 14 h
- Reading time
- Film 2002 +9
- On screen
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Our view
“Nicholas Nickleby” is a big-hearted Dickens novel that sets real comedy beside darker, harsher scenes. Left to provide for his mother and sister when his father dies, a young man has to make his way in a hard world, in a story first published in instalments. Readers praise the richness of its language, though some find the plot meandering and would cut a few digressions. It runs past seven hundred and fifty pages.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Nicholas Nickleby, or The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, is the third novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839. The character of Nickleby is a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen 10 times — from 1912 to 2002.
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Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 57 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 28% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Classics average of 7.7. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 57 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Nicholas Nickleby?
It has 768 pages — longer than 96% of the ranked books in Classics.
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