Dickens, Charles: Nicholas Nickleby (Nab Audio CD 29-disc set)  

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, Unabridged, Read by David Horovitch.

One of Dickens’s earlier novels, dating from 1839, it charts the fortunes of an honourable young man, Nicholas Nickleby, who has set out to make his way in the world. Dickens presents his remarkably vivid display of Victorian characters and the life they lead, from the generous to the fated to the crushed. Hope springs eternal, however, and righteous persistence brings rewards.

2012 marks the 200th anniversary of Dickens’s birth.

By July 2012, recordings of all of Dickens’s major works will be available from Naxos AudioBooks, in both unabridged and abridged forms.

The abridged Nicholas Nickleby (ISBN: 978-962-634-326-5) was released in 2005 and was read by Anton Lesser, an outstanding, critically acclaimed Dickens reader.

David Horovitch has read a number of other titles for Naxos AudioBooks, including Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s The Leopard (ISBN: 978-962-634-996-0). Katherine A. Powers, writing for The Washington Post, praised his reading thus: ‘David Horovitch’s voice, rich in timbre and sepia in tone, is wonderfully paired with this masterpiece...’.

There is a major Dickens exhibition opening at the Museum of London which will run from December 2011 — June 2012, to tie in with the anniversary.

Running time: 35 hours