The Greatest Children's Classics of Charles Dickens (Illustrated). Charles Dickens

Chapter 31. Of Ralph Nickleby and Newman Noggs, and some wise Precautions, the success or failure of which will appear in the Sequel

       Chapter 32. Relating chiefly to some remarkable Conversation, and some remarkable Proceedings to which it gives rise

       Chapter 33. In which Mr. Ralph Nickleby is relieved, by a very expeditious Process, from all Commerce with his Relations

       Chapter 34. Wherein Mr. Ralph Nickleby is visited by Persons with whom the Reader has been already made acquainted

       Chapter 35. Smike becomes known to Mrs. Nickleby and Kate. Nicholas also meets with new Acquaintances. Brighter Days seem to dawn upon the Family

       Chapter 36. Private and confidential; relating to Family Matters. Showing how Mr Kenwigs underwent violent Agitation, and how Mrs. Kenwigs was as well as could be expected

       Chapter 37. Nicholas finds further Favour in the Eyes of the brothers Cheeryble and Mr Timothy Linkinwater. The brothers give a Banquet on a great Annual Occasion. Nicholas, on returning Home from it, receives a mysterious and important Disclosure from the Lips of Mrs. Nickleby

       Chapter 38. Comprises certain Particulars arising out of a Visit of Condolence, which may prove important hereafter. Smike unexpectedly encounters a very old Friend, who invites him to his House, and will take no Denial

       Chapter 39. In which another old Friend encounters Smike, very opportunely and to some Purpose

       Chapter 40. In which Nicholas falls in Love. He employs a Mediator, whose Proceedings are crowned with unexpected Success, excepting in one solitary Particular

       Chapter 41. Containing some Romantic Passages between Mrs. Nickleby and the Gentleman in the Small-clothes next Door

       Chapter 42. Illustrative of the convivial Sentiment, that the best of Friends must sometimes part

       Chapter 43. Officiates as a kind of Gentleman Usher, in bringing various People together

       Chapter 44. Mr. Ralph Nickleby cuts an old Acquaintance. It would also appear from the Contents hereof, that a Joke, even between Husband and Wife, may be sometimes carried too far

       Chapter 45 Containing Matter of a surprising Kind

       Chapter 46. Throws some Light upon Nicholas’s Love; but whether for Good or Evil the Reader must determine

       Chapter 47. Mr. Ralph Nickleby has some confidential Intercourse with another old Friend. They concert between them a Project, which promises well for both

       Chapter 48. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Vincent Crummles, and positively his last Appearance on this Stage

       Chapter 49. Chronicles the further Proceedings of the Nickleby Family, and the Sequel of the Adventure of the Gentleman in the Small-clothes

       Chapter 50. Involves a serious Catastrophe

       Chapter 51. The Project of Mr. Ralph Nickleby and his Friend approaching a successful Issue, becomes unexpectedly known to another Party, not admitted into their Confidence

       Chapter 52. Nicholas despairs of rescuing Madeline Bray, but plucks up his Spirits again, and determines to attempt it. Domestic Intelligence of the Kenwigses and Lillyvicks

       Chapter 53. Containing the further Progress of the Plot contrived by Mr. Ralph Nickleby and Mr. Arthur Gride

       Chapter 54. The Crisis of the Project and its Result

       Chapter 55. Of Family Matters, Cares, Hopes, Disappointments, and Sorrows

       Chapter 56. Ralph Nickleby, baffled by his Nephew in his late Design, hatches a Scheme of Retaliation which Accident suggests to him, and takes into his Counsels a tried Auxiliary

       Chapter 57. How Ralph Nickleby’s Auxiliary went about his Work, and how he prospered with it

       Chapter 58. In which one Scene of this History is closed

       Chapter 59. The Plots begin to fail, and Doubts and Dangers to disturb the Plotter

       Chapter 60. The Dangers thicken, and the Worst is Told

       Chapter 61. Wherein Nicholas and his Sister forfeit the good Opinion of all worldly and prudent People

       Chapter 62. Ralph makes one last Appointment—and keeps it

       Chapter 63. The Brothers Cheeryble make various Declarations for themselves and others. Tim Linkinwater makes a Declaration for himself

       Chapter 64. An old Acquaintance is recognised under melancholy Circumstances, and Dotheboys Hall breaks up for ever

       Chapter 65. Conclusion

      Author’s Preface

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      This story was begun, within a few months after the publication of the completed “Pickwick Papers.” There were, then, a good many cheap Yorkshire schools in existence. There are very few now.

      Of the monstrous neglect of education in England, and the disregard of it by the State as a means of forming good or bad citizens, and miserable or happy men, private schools long afforded a notable example. Although any man who had proved his