The Life Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens First Signet Printing, January, 1982 Rare Edition The world of Dickens is a stage peopled by the most colorful characters and scenes that a novelist ever created. Nowhere is this more true than in Nicholas Nickleby. In this mesmerizing masterpiece, Dickens plays on the full scale of comedy, tragedy, melodrama and suspense as he takes his gallant young hero on an odyssey that extends from a nightmare boarding school to the gaudy London stage, from magnificent country house to the squalid city slums. Filled with light and shadow, pitting the darkest villains and villainies against human beings of glowing nobility, Nicholas Nickleby has worked its magic for over a century, and today has won fresh recognition in an acclaimed theatrical triumph. "No other writer of fiction in English approaches Dickens in vividness, in exotic invention of character, in social vision, in the size of his canvas. No one else so grips us on the printed page, in the teeming drama of his imagination. All this has been miraculously reproduced on the stage in a production that is one of the great contemporary theatrical experiences." -Anthony Lewis, The New York Times Roger Rees as Nicholas Nickleby in The Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. This production, adapted by David Edgar from the Charles Dickens novel, is directed by Trevor Nunn and John Caird. "A monumental theatrical experience a great novel turned into grand theater!' -The New York Times Pages in unmarked condition. Tanning to edge of pages. Dog-earred page. Cover has chipping at spine and corners. Cover has creasing at bottom corners and shelf wear at edges.