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05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
Nicholas Nickleby is one of my favorite Dickens novels because of the smoothly blended elements of tragedy and comedy at once. It's a masterful character study of tragic proportions, but Dickens, like Shakespeare, always provides comic relief along the way. Dickens stays true to the Aristotelian Poetic formula and doesn't stumble when telling such a complex story. Reversals and richness of detail abound. Highly recommended.