Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby (unabridged)
read by David Horovitch
- Release Date: 3rd Jan 2012
- Catalogue No: NA0074
- Label: Naxos AudioBooks
- Series: Complete Classics
- Length: 38 hours 5 minutes
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Charles Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby (Unabridged)
- David Horovitch (reader)
- Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby…
With a portion of this property…
From what we have said of this young gentleman…
Chapter 2: Of Mr. Ralph Nickleby, and his establishments…
Mr. Nickleby closed an account-book…
Noggs gave vent to his usual grunt…
Meanwhile, and pending the arrangement…
Mr. Ralph Nickleby seconded the resolution…
Chapter 3: Mr. Ralph Nickleby receives sad tidings…
Mr. Nickleby looked very indignant…
Climbing up another perpendicular flight…
The mutual inspection was at length…
'There!' said Ralph…
Chapter 4: Nicholas and his uncle…
When you walk up this yard…
The stranger continued.
Having entered Mr. Snawley's address…
His father is dead…
Chapter 5: Nicholas starts for Yorkshire.
He found that learned gentleman sitting at breakfast…
If the proprietor of Dotheboys Hall…
When the guard…
Chapter 6: In which the occurrence of the accident…
Expressing himself to this effect…
THE FIVE SISTERS OF YORK
Still wasting the precious hours…
The holy man, who had often urged the same point before…
With the indifference or abstraction of one…
They sent abroad, to artists…
THE BARON OF GROGZWIG
What a pleasant thing filial piety is…
The poor baron bore it all as long as he could…
The baron took another look at his new friend…
Chapter 7: Mr. and Mrs. Squeers at home
Pending these little endearments…
This part of the conversation was rather unintelligible…
Chapter 8: Of the internal economy of Dotheboys Hall
Nicholas sighed involuntarily…
And yet this scene, painful as it was…
After some half-hour's delay…
According to half-yearly custom…
Another boy stood up…
But, for the present, his resolve was taken…
Chapter 9: Of Miss Squeers, Mrs. Squeers, Master Squeers…
Now, a proud usher in a Yorkshire school…
Miss Squeers glanced at the door…
It so fell out, that Mrs. Squeers's journey…
Mr. Browdie was not a gentleman of great conversational powers…
'I never had such luck, really,' exclaimed coquettish Miss Price…
Chapter 10: How Mr. Ralph Nickleby provided…
'It is only his manner, I believe,' observed Kate…
With an assumption of kindness…
'The lady's name,' said Ralph…
A liveried footman opened the door…
'Now, ma'am,' said Ralph…
Chapter 11: Newman Noggs inducts Mrs. and Miss Nickleby…
It was no very easy matter to mistake Newman Noggs…
Chapter 12: Whereby the reader will be enabled…
'What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers…
It is needless to say, that, by this time…
Here he raised up the brown bonnet…
The wretched creature, Smike…
Chapter 13: Nicholas varies the monotony…
There was, of course, a profound silence…
'No news of the scamp!' said the schoolmaster…
The news that Smike had been caught…
Mrs. Squeers, being out of breath…
After a brief consideration…
Nicholas could by no means be prevailed…
Chapter 14: Having the misfortune to treat…
Newman Noggs pointed to the bottom of a cupboard…
'My dear,' said Mr. Kenwigs…
After a great deal of trouble…
A gentle murmur seemed to say…
Chapter 15: Acquaints the reader with the cause and origin…
With this gentle allusion to the absent Mr. Squeers…
Newman, who had stood during…
The worthy gentleman then became…
This brief explanation over…
Chapter 16: Nicholas seeks to employ himself in a new capacity…
'Cook,' said Tom, turning over…
Tom made no other reply…
Into Manchester Buildings Nicholas turned…
The time had been, when this burst of enthusiasm…
To this, Mr. Gregsbury read the following reply…
Mr. Gregsbury looked fixedly at Nicholas…
With this handsome offer…
Newman hastened, with joyful steps…
Chapter 17: Follows the fortunes of Miss Nickleby
'If you will be odiously, demnebly, outrageously jealous…'
Madame Mantalini's prudence…
Here Miss Knag paused to take breath…
There had existed not a little desire in the room…
Chapter 18: Miss Knag, after doting on Kate Nickleby…
Of such a highly disinterested quality…
As Miss Knag had never yet known…
With another sigh Mr. Knag…
At this high point, Miss Knag's friendship remained…
The circumstances of the little kingdom…
Chapter 19: Descriptive of a dinner at Mr. Ralph Nickleby's…
The blessing seemed to stick in Mr. Ralph Nickleby's throat…
The coachman gave a tremendous double knock…
When Ralph had completed the ceremonial of introduction…
All this while, Kate had sat as silently as she could…
The book fell from her hand…
Although this hurried dialogue…
Chapter 20: Wherein Nicholas at length encounters his uncle…
'I need look somewhat changed,' he said…
Kate very well understood…
There really was no necessity for the good lady…
The grasp which had detained him relaxed…
Chapter 21: Madam Mantalini finds herself in a situation…
Kate busied herself…
With these remarks, combining great pleasantry…
Kate was too sick at heart…
'You are a good temper?' asked Mrs. Wititterly…
Here, both Mr. and Mrs. Wititterly…
Chapter 22: Nicholas, accompanied by Smike…
'I don't know much of these matters,' resumed Nicholas…
'No,' rejoined the youth…
By degrees, the prospect receded…
The two combatants went to work afresh…
While he was thus engaged…
There was a pause.
Chapter 23: Treats of the company…
As Mrs. Vincent Crummles…
'Mr. Folair,' said the manager…
The ladies were gathered in a little knot…
Mr. Crummles lived in St. Thomas's Street…
Chapter 24: Of the great bespeak for Miss Snevellicci…
Nicholas was standing with his back to the curtain…
'What did you think of that?' asked Mr. Crummles…
At the stipulated hour next morning…
The conversation was here interrupted…
Mrs. Curdle had sat listening to this lucid explanation…
It was a trying morning…
Chapter 25: Concerning a young lady from London…
The arrival of the gifted subject…
Nicholas had much ado to prevent himself from laughing…
With these words, Mr. Lillyvick…
With such expressions of sorrow…
'It's very soon done, sir, isn't it?' inquired Mr. Folair…
This desperate threat effectually broke up the party.
Chapter 26: Is fraught with some danger…
'Well,' replied Sir Mulberry…
Ralph ran over this brief summary…
Mrs. Nickleby was too much flurried…
What a delight, what a comfort…
Chapter 27: Mrs. Nickleby becomes acquainted…
Mr. Pluck, after feigning to be in a condition…
By degrees these raptures subsided…
Mrs. Nickleby had scarcely been put away…
But Sir Mulberry Hawk was not to be…
The evening came to an end at last…
Chapter 28: Miss Nickleby, rendered desperate by the persecution…
At this instant, while the Lady Flabella…
To judge from the glow…
That they came at all times and seasons…
I have always considered you a particularly well-behaved…
Newman, with a grim smile at this manoeuvre…
We are connected in business…
Chapter 29: Of the proceedings of Nicholas…
Nicholas, in a state of much amazement…
As Mr. Folair was pretty well known…
The profoundest deference was paid to Nicholas that night…
Chapter 30: Festivities are held in honour of Nicholas…
'Heigho!' sighed Nicholas…
So these are some of the stories they invent…
To these good people Nicholas was presented…
Most public characters have their failings…
Miss Snevellicci's papa being greatly exalted…
All this was the occasion of much amusement…
Chapter 31: Of Ralph Nickleby and Newman Noggs…
He executed his commission…
'Damn him!' cried Newman…
Chapter 32: Relating chiefly to some remarkable conversation…
With his heart beating violently…
Nicholas was in a perfect agony…
It was evident from the tone…
Chapter 33: In which Mr. Ralph Nickleby is relieved…
The plated buttons disappeared…
As Nicholas and his sister were by this time compelled…
Chapter 34: Wherein Mr. Ralph Nickleby is visited…
And notwithstanding various blandishments…
On this repetition of Mr. Mantalini's fatal threat…
'And what said he?' asked Ralph…
'He looks well, indeed,' returned Ralph…
'Are you stopping at your old quarters?' asked Ralph.
'We will both cry quits with him before long,'…
Chapter 35: Smike becomes known to Mrs. Nickleby and Kate…
At length the door opened again…
Mr. Crummles occurred to him more than once…
He moved away as he said this…
Passing through a warehouse…
'But hear this first – hear this first, brother Ned,'…
'We must. We certainly must have a quarrel…'
Chapter 36: Private and confidential; relating to family matters…
In the midst of this general hubbub…
Hearing this mention of their old friend's name…
Chapter 37: Nicholas finds further favour in the eyes…
Nor was this all.
With this casting down of his gauntlet…
At a quarter past five o'clock…
But there was no time to moralise…
By this time it was past eleven o'clock…
This was undoubtedly the case…
'Every time I go to the window,'…
Chapter 38: Comprises certain particulars…
Leaving it to pursue its journey…
Ralph shrugged his shoulders…
Ralph, who was no common observer…
The man looked from Squeers to Smike…
Obedient to this direction…
Chapter 39: In which another old friend…
To have seen Miss Squeers now…
'What do you think?' said that gentleman…
Now, the fact was, that at that particular moment…
Chapter 40: In which Nicholas falls in love…
He was going on, in his enthusiasm…
'Is there nobody in the house to cheer or help him?'…
He had abundance of time to ruminate…
These repeated visits inflamed the curiosity…
It appeared, on further questioning…
'Well!' said Nicholas…
Chapter 41: Containing some romantic passages…
'Well, I will say,' observed Mrs. Nickleby…
As Kate rose from her seat…
Here he broke off to look round…
Repeating these last words with great rapture…
One of the hands being then cautiously unclasped…
Chapter 42: Illustrative of the convivial sentiment…
'I dinnot know whether thou'd ever dreamt of it…'
'He's a bad 'un,' said John…
'This is the hend, is it?'…
While the foregoing conversation was proceeding…
Chapter 43: Officiates as a kind of gentleman usher…
Here a waiter who had been rubbing his hands…
Nicholas responded to these compliments…
Notwithstanding all that has been said…
'Mr. Nickleby,' said brother Charles…
There was a mighty bustle that night…
Chapter 44: Mr. Ralph Nickleby cuts an old acquaintance…
'This Hawk will come back, however,'…
The sky had been lowering and dark…
'I am a most miserable and wretched outcast…'
'I neither revile nor threaten,'…
'What is the matter here?' said Ralph…
However, notwithstanding her firmness…
Chapter 45: Containing matter of a surprising kind
'Mr. Browdie,' said Kate…
'There's more to say and hear…'
This being purely a labour of love…
'The school was Mr. Squeers's,'…
'Now,' said Nicholas to the other two…
Chapter 46: Throws some light upon Nicholas's love…
By this time brother Charles was in such a very warm state…
Pursuing this encomium upon the poor follower…
Then it came out by little and little…
To the row of houses indicated to him…
'Ring the bell, ring the bell,' said the sick man…
Chapter 47: Mr. Ralph Nickleby has some confidential intercourse…
Such was old Arthur Gride…
'I wouldn't deceive YOU, you know,'…
There was enough acerbity and sarcasm…
'There's something more to be told,' said Ralph…
Having delivered this observation…
'Still,' rejoined Ralph…
It might have moved a very hard…
Chapter 48: Being for the benefit of Mr. Vincent Crummles…
Mr. Crummles was unfeignedly glad to see him…
Nicholas responded to this confidence…
With this hasty apology…
The conversation threatened…
Chapter 49: Chronicles the further proceedings of the Nickleby family…
But there were other persons associated…
As the hearers did not echo this sentiment…
The good lady's surprise…
Frank Cheeryble and Tim Linkinwater…
It happened that Miss La Creevy…
Frank was not at all confident of his power…
Chapter 50: Involves a serious catastrophe
Fitted up with three tables…
This officer was busily plying his vocation…
Such was the ascendancy he had acquired…
Here, they encountered another party…
What a contrast, when they reached the street…
Chapter 51: The project of Mr. Ralph Nickleby and his friend…
'The bottle-green,' said old Arthur…
Mrs. Sliderskew appeared to approve highly…
In good fellowship…
'He is an idle ruffian,' said Ralph…
Chapter 52: Nicholas despairs of rescuing Madeline Bray…
You read me a good lesson, Newman…
Deploring the evil-mindedness…
The features of Mr. Lillyvick…
Immediately upon the utterance…
Newman had been a silent spectator…
Chapter 53: Containing the further progress of the plot…
Bray and his daughter were sitting there alone.
The father was too much absorbed…
Long before Nicholas ceased to speak…
'Well-a-day!' he chuckled…
'Thieves! Thieves!' shrieked the usurer…
Long habit of weighing and noting well…
Chapter 54: The crisis of the project and its result
'What a man it is!' cried Arthur Gride…
You see what a dry, shrivelled…
As the brother and sister stood side by side…
They all stood still…
Chapter 55: Of family matters, cares, hopes…
To this, Mrs. Nickleby only replied…
Who, slowly recovering from a disorder so severe…
At other times, when Nicholas came home at night…
'I think it my duty, Nicholas…'
Mrs. Nickleby shook her head…
Chapter 56: Ralph Nickleby, baffled by his nephew…
On their way, Ralph sat in the furthest corner…
'There is something missing…'
Striving, as it would seem…
'How often have I told you,' said Ralph…
Mr. Squeers, after following with his eye…
Chapter 57: How Ralph Nickleby's auxiliary…
'The pigs is well,' said Mr. Squeers…
'Do you see this? This is a bottle.'
'He's a treacherous old goat,' said Peg…
If the old woman had not been very deaf…
Chapter 58: In which one scene…
In a fortnight's time, he became too ill…
On a fine, mild autumn day…
Chapter 59: The plots begin to fail…
Of all men alive…
With these words, uttered with great emphasis…
At length he felt it was hopeless to remain…
'As nobody bids me to a seat,' said Ralph…
Ralph had put a great command upon himself…
The robbery, partly owing to the inquisitiveness…
Chapter 60: The dangers thicken…
'What document was it that you had?' asked Ralph…
He went home, and was glad…
The brothers conferred apart for a short time…
In the midst of a dead silence…
He went on, from this point…
Chapter 61: Wherein Nicholas and his sister forfeit…
Nicholas coloured again…
I have thought of this for weeks…
Here, Tim stopped and glanced anxiously…
'Mr. Nickleby,' said brother Charles…
Chapter 62: Ralph makes one last appointment…
While he was thus engaged…
But one tender thought…
He listened to the man's retreating footsteps…
Chapter 63: The brothers Cheeryble…
The old butler received them…
'I hardly dared to hope –'
Tim sat down beside Miss La Creevy…
By this time, the apoplectic butler was nearly in fits…
Chapter 64: An old acquaintance is recognised…
Mr. Mantalini turned round…
The entrance of Mrs. Browdie…
Before that estimable lady could recover herself…
Chapter 65: Conclusion
