Nicholas Nickleby
WORLD LITERATURE
Charles Dickens
Text adaptation by Tim Herdon
CEFR A2 — B1
Word count 10,222
When his father dies a poor man, Nicholas Nickleby goes to London and takes a teaching job at Dotheboys Hall – a terrible school belonging to Mr Wackford Squeers. There he helps a poor boy called Smike who has no one to look after him.
Leaving Dotheboys, Nicholas makes both friends and enemies on his journey towards better things. But will Smike, who travels with him, ever find the happy family life that he so dearly wants?
ISBN 9780194639637
