Talk:Nicholas Nickleby

Literary Techniques
what are the literary techniques employed by Dickens when wrting N.N? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.215.254.192 (talk • contribs) 10:21, 14 June 2005.

Sliderskew - play on "slight askew"?
Does anyone know if the name "Sliderskew" was intended as a play on "slight askew"?

When I first saw the BBC mini-series of Nicholas Nickleby, I thought that her name was actually Slightaskew - it may not look like it on page, but I think it does sound like it, especially when said with a British accent.

Anyone? --DearPrudence 22:47, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

sry this is just crap, there is not even a short summary, and the major themes are ramdomly anything

Copyright violation.
Original here for comparison.--Old Moonraker (talk) 13:52, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Title
I don't see why this shouldn't be at Nicholas Nickleby. It is almost always published under that title, and it is clearly the primary topic for that title, as well. john k (talk) 02:51, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

I may be incorrect, however; I think there are way to many grammatical errors in this article. If that is the case it is shame since Nicholas Nickleby is a great example of English literature in history and certainly some of the greatest characters Charles Dickens ever created. (Also there are too many personal oppinions about the way "Nicholas Nickleby," is written and not enough biasedness).

Time adjustment
I have altered the 1st sentence of 'Major Themes' from "Like nearly all..." to "Like many...". Pickwick, Two Cities, Expectations, Copperfield, Rudge are all concerned with earlier times than those in which Dickens wrote.

Available Versions
An audio version is available at LibriVox: http://librivox.org/the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby-by/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.165.117.73 (talk) 07:49, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Characters
1/23/2010 the article says: Arthur Gride an elderly miser and associate of Ralph. He pretends to be in love with Madeline, but is only interested in her inheritance. A coward and a boot-licker, he is a thoroughly unlikeable character.

That doesn't make sense - Madeline's father is in debt to Gride - I recall that Madeline's Father agreed to marry his daughter to Gride in exchange for cancelling the debt. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.105.145.106 (talk) 19:22, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Hmmm - I posted that above comment - and I need to re-read the book! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.105.145.106 (talk) 05:44, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

How did Ralph Nickleby persuade Squiers to hire Nicholas: A detail glossed over by the 2002 movie and only hinted at in the novel was expanded in a stage production. Squiers's school is actually a dumping ground for "inconvenient" boys -- stepsons or illegitimate sons of (mostly) men of means, who deliberately paid Squiers to keep them confined in his school, assured that the child would be kept incommunicado and not even allowed a Christmas furlough. The quality of the education or living conditions in this kiddie concentration camp were a matter of indifference. The stage production also enlarged on something only hinted at in the novel: Ralph has some leverage over Squiers because Ralph had discovered that Squiers had been continuing to collect money for a boy who had, unbeknown to the parents, died years before. (It is unclear whether Ralph's involvement in this case is that the boy was the son or stepson of one of his clients or whether he himself was the boy's father.) Sussmanbern (talk) 11:43, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Possessives
I'm never in favour of change for the sake of it, so this is just to dispute that "Nicholas's", "Dickens's", etc., is wrong. The Cambridge Guide to English Usage suggests in respect of proper nouns "Treat all names ending in -s to the full apostrophe".--Old Moonraker (talk) 16:41, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello Old Moonraker. I guess that I am operating on an out-of-date set of standards (not the first time). I would certainly defer to your knowledge of the situation so please feel free to change it back. The "s's" will always look weird to me but I trust your point. Many apologies for the confusion that I have caused. MarnetteD | Talk 20:37, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It can look weird, and in the interest of not attracting further reverts I'm inclined to let it stand; the work I cited allows us a little "wriggle room" by acknowledging that the use of the s-apostrophe alone "lingers". However, Wikipedia pages which have developed with this standard, such as H. G. Wells, will be defended! --Old Moonraker (talk) 09:34, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

"Dickens's", etc, is correct. Only words where the final syllable starts and ends with S have the full apostrophe S omitted, eg Moses' would be correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.7.130.42 (talk) 21:16, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

About the conspiracy
In chapter 56 Ralph said "Ten thousand pounds", so there seems to be some kind of conspiracy which Charles Dickens did not explain explicitly.In chapter 64, Nickleby said "He has to suffer the consequence of a conspiracy", "connected with his school". No further explanation is given in the novel. It seems that Ralph and Squeers are trying to mortgage the school for at least ten thousand pounds.

In chapter 63 cherryble said "You are the children of a worthy gentleman", but still, no further explanation is given. xin_jl (talk) 01:29, 20 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xin jl (talk • contribs) 01:25, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

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