ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A novel by Charles Dickens (1812-1870), published 1838–39. Impoverished after his father’s death, the eponymous hero teaches at Dotheboys Hall, a school run by the hateful Wackford Squeers.

Detailed explanation-2: -A novel by Charles Dickens (1812-1870), published 1838–39. Impoverished after his father’s death, the eponymous hero teaches at Dotheboys Hall, a school run by the hateful Wackford Squeers.

Detailed explanation-3: -One of Dickens’s goals in writing Nicholas Nickleby was to expose the ugly truth about Yorkshire boarding schools.

Detailed explanation-4: -Nicholas Nickleby’s father dies unexpectedly after losing all of his money in a poor investment. Nicholas, his mother and his younger sister, Kate, are forced to give up their comfortable lifestyle in Devonshire and travel to London to seek the aid of their only relative, Nicholas’s uncle, Ralph Nickleby.

Detailed explanation-5: -What did Charles Dickens write? Among Charles Dickens’s many works are the novels The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1838), A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), and Great Expectations (1861).