{"description": "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.", "title": "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby", "covers": [9283905, 1048891, 8742238, 9147840, 10213631, 11052645, 11950649, 14303647, 13440170, 13678604], "subject_places": ["England", "Yorkshire (England)", "Great Britain"], "first_publish_date": "1843", "subject_people": ["Charles Dickens (1837-1896)"], "key": "/works/OL13114895W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL24638A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "subject_times": ["19th century"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction", "Young men", "Boarding schools", "Poor families", "Theatrical companies", "Death", "Uncles", "Fathers", "Widows", "Social life and customs", "Recitations", "Promptbooks", "Facsimiles", "Disinheritance", "Classic Literature", "Students", "Nineteenth century", "British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)", "Fiction, coming of age", "England, fiction", "Teachers, fiction", "Social conditions", "English literature", "Social live and customs", "Coming of age", "English Love stories", "English fiction", "English Romance fiction", "Teachers", "Social life", "England Love stories", "Manners and customs", "Children's stories", "Tragedy", "Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)", "Readers", "General", "England", "Fiction, family life, general", "Fiction, classics", "Meteorology", "Climatology", "Litt\u00e9rature anglaise", "Long now manual for civilization", "Schools"], "cover_edition": {"key": "/books/OL8107407M"}, "latest_revision": 57, "revision": 57, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-11T08:37:43.177921"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-16T13:52:12.932023"}}