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Author(s): Dickens, Charles
Reader(s): Lesser, Anton
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: NA632612
Barcode: 730099032629
Release Date: 04/2005
DICKENS, C.: Nicholas Nickleby (Abridged)
One of Dickens’s earlier novels, dating from 1839, it charts the fortunes of an honourable young man, Nicholas Nickleby, who has set out to make his way in the world. Dickens presents his remarkably vivid display of Victorian characters and the life they lead, from the generous to the fated to the crushed. Hope springs eternal, however, and righteous persistence brings rewards. Anton Lesser, the outstanding Dickens interpreter, brings all his narrative expression to bear on this exciting tale.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Dickens, Charles - Author
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|  | 1 | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby… | 05:25 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 2 | Mr Ralph Nickleby was not… | 01:53 |
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| | 3 | Having concluded his business in the City… | 05:36 |
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| | 4 | The uncle and nephew looked at each other… | 04:13 |
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| | 5 | In the coffee-room of the Saracen’s Head… | 03:23 |
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| | 6 | The schoolmaster had scarcely uttered these words… | 03:25 |
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| | 7 | Having entered Mr Snawley’s address… | 03:14 |
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| | 8 | Nicholas found Golden Square in due course… | 03:08 |
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| | 9 | Mr Squeers, being safely landed at the George and New Inn… | 03:18 |
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| | 10 | After some further conversation between the master… | 04:58 |
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| | 11 | ‘Past seven, Nickleby,’ said Mr Squeers… | 04:17 |
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| | 12 | Nicholas distended his stomach with a bowl of porridge | 03:40 |
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| | 13 | At one o’clock, the boys… | 03:35 |
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| | 14 | This business dispatched… | 03:43 |
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| | 15 | On the second morning after the departure of Nicholas… | 05:32 |
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| | 16 | No crying, or talking, or hoping, or fearing… | 01:35 |
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| | 17 | The wretched creature, Smike… | 04:01 |
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| | 18 | The cold, feeble dawn of a January morning… | 04:42 |
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| | 19 | Mrs Squeers, being out of breath… | 04:05 |
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| | 20 | Lifting up his eyes… | 05:40 |
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Disc 2
| | 1 | In that quarter of London in which Golden Square is situated… | 04:16 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 2 | ‘Now listen to me,’ said Nicholas… | 04:14 |
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| | 3 | The first care of Nicholas, next morning… | 03:22 |
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| | 4 | Smike had scraped a meal together… | 03:39 |
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| | 5 | After her hard week’s work at Madam Mantalini’s… | 03:37 |
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| | 6 | Seven or eight gentlemen were standing around the fire… | 05:37 |
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| | 7 | The poor girl, who was so overwhelmed with confusion… | 03:17 |
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| | 8 | ‘What is this?’ said Ralph… | 04:47 |
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| | 9 | Miss La Creevy was at breakfast… | 03:11 |
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| | 10 | In the first moment of surprise… | 02:41 |
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| | 11 | There came a day when Kate… | 05:47 |
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| | 12 | The whole capital which Nicholas found himself entitled… | 04:14 |
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| | 13 | Nicholas promised to do so… | 04:07 |
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| | 14 | Arrived at the drawbridge at Portsmouth… | 05:25 |
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| | 15 | Nicholas was up betimes in the morning… | 04:45 |
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| | 16 | Nicholas having to play Romeo for the first time… | 02:42 |
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| | 17 | Lord Verisopht and Sir Mulberry Hawk found Ralph at home… | 05:35 |
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| | 18 | It was four in the afternoon… | 05:01 |
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| | 19 | Kate hastily attired herself for walking… | 03:01 |
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Disc 3
| | 1 | The unexpected success and favour… | 04:42 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 2 | In blissful unconsciousness… | 03:38 |
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| | 3 | After a few minutes, Ralph rang his bell | 04:50 |
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| | 4 | ‘London at last!’ cried Nicholas… | 04:12 |
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| | 5 | The man who had spoken first… | 05:11 |
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| | 6 | Smike and Newman Hoggs… | 02:04 |
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| | 7 | It wanted a quarter to eight when they reached Cadogan Place… | 03:58 |
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| | 8 | ‘Have you quite recovered…’ | 03:47 |
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| | 9 | Having established his mother and sister in the apartments… | 03:40 |
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| | 10 | As the stranger was moving away… | 03:23 |
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| | 11 | So saying, the old gentleman dragged him back into Oxford Street… | 03:01 |
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| | 12 | As they shook each other by the hand… | 03:01 |
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| | 13 | During the next two weeks… | 03:24 |
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| | 14 | Kate Nickleby had begun to enjoy a settled feeling… | 02:33 |
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| | 15 | Leaving the omnibus to pursue its journey… | 05:08 |
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| | 16 | Perhaps because Tim’s accounts were more than usually intricate… | 03:21 |
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| | 17 | Nicholas immediately withdrew… | 03:20 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 18 | ‘Mr Nickleby,’ said brother Charles… | 05:10 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Disc 4
| | 1 | Ralph Nickleby stood regarding Newman Hoggs… | 03:37 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 2 | It was evening… | 03:42 |
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| | 3 | ‘That didn’t part us,’ said the man | 03:44 |
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| | 4 | With a disdainful scowl… | 02:55 |
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| | 5 | ‘As we gang awa’ fra’ Lunnun tomorrow neeght…’ | 03:15 |
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| | 6 | ‘Stay,’ said Ralph, as Nicholas rose… | 03:25 |
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| | 7 | ‘Stop,’ interposed Ralph… | 05:42 |
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| | 8 | This accidental circumstance… | 03:45 |
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| | 9 | After an anxious consideration… | 05:07 |
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| | 10 | Brother Charles leant back in his chair… | 03:50 |
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| | 11 | The place to which Mr Cheeryble had directed him… | 05:41 |
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| | 12 | ‘There go the three-quarters past!’ | 03:57 |
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| | 13 | Whatever reasons there might have been… | 05:00 |
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| | 14 | Ralph sat for three or four minutes… | 02:19 |
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| | 15 | Meanwhile the two plotters… | 05:25 |
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| | 16 | While Nicholas occupied his leisure hours… | 03:33 |
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| | 17 | Any further reflections on this theme… | 04:14 |
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| | 18 | The little race course at Hampton… | 03:45 |
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| | 19 | They dined together, sumptuously… | 05:17 |
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Disc 5
| | 1 | In an old house… | 02:35 |
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| | 2 | Startled by a ring at the door… | 03:56 |
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| | 3 | ‘You’ve been a long time,’ said Ralph… | 03:34 |
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| | 4 | Nicholas had drawn Noggs… | 02:35 |
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| | 5 | Finding that Newman was determined… | 03:11 |
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| | 6 | Nicholas started, at the dawn of day… | 04:21 |
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| | 7 | ‘I speak of this marriage,’ | 03:47 |
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| | 8 | That night, being the last… | 03:55 |
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| | 9 | When Nicholas began… | 03:41 |
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| | 10 | There are not many men… | 03:33 |
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| | 11 | If some tremendous apparition… | 02:54 |
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| | 12 | He burst from the room… | 04:07 |
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| | 13 | Although Mrs Nickleby… | 04:21 |
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| | 14 | Nicholas felt that there was only one… | 04:30 |
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| | 15 | Ralph Nickleby and Arthur Gride… | 06:20 |
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| | 16 | The interval between the delivery… | 06:08 |
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| | 17 | It was a dark, wet, gloomy night… | 05:13 |
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| | 18 | Mr Squeers, plying Mrs Sliderskew… | 05:59 |
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Disc 6
| | 1 | Nicholas, at the end of the second day… | 05:02 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 2 | And now, Nicholas began to see… | 04:35 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 3 | Ralph sat alone… | 05:38 |
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| | 4 | Turning from the door… | 03:21 |
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| | 5 | It so happened that… | 03:35 |
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| | 6 | Ralph went home… | 03:33 |
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| | 7 | He had struck upon a key… | 04:10 |
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| | 8 | ‘Among those who once had dealings…’ | 03:32 |
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| | 9 | ‘I brought the child home…’ | 04:47 |
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| | 10 | Creeping from the house… | 05:02 |
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| | 11 | He spoke no more… | 04:00 |
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| | 12 | Some weeks had passed… | 03:49 |
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| | 13 | Without any further explanation… | 04:53 |
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| | 14 | Thus apostrophised, brother Ned… | 04:51 |
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| | 15 | Five minutes after this honest… | 03:26 |
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| | 16 | Nicholas was one of those… | 04:53 |
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| | 17 | John cantered away… | 03:57 |
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| | 18 | When her term of mourning had expired… | 06:17 |
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Total Playing Time: 07:39:18