Nicholas Nickleby

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by John Everett Millais, James Tissot and Eduard Hau. A boy is sent to teach at a Yorkshire school where the pupils are unwanted children being starved quietly for profit, and the book leaves it for the theater and the road. Dickens visited such a school under a false name before writing; within a few years of publication the Yorkshire schools were...