Charles Dickens, Roger Rees: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (AudiobookFormat, 1986, Newman Communications)
audio cassette
Published July 27, 1986 by Newman Communications.
Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies. The novel follows his attempt to succeed in supporting them, despite his uncle Ralph's antagonistic lack of belief in him. It is one of Dickens' early comic novels.
This felt an enormous read. At times could do with tighter editing, but I think that's a product of the original serial format.
The book follows the titular character, his family and friends through good and bad.
Some super fantastic ideas / concepts as ever from Judith, however I thought it dwelt too long on traditional philosophy without diving headfirst into more entangled messy issues of selfhood and police violence - maybe a bit sort of 'discipled'?
