Explore "Tales From Dickens: NICHOLAS NICKLEBY" by Charles Dickens on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Once on a time, in England, there were two brothers named Nickleby who had grown up to be very different men. Ralph was a rich and miserly money-lender who gained his wealth by persecuting the poor of London -- a thin, cold-hearted, crafty man with a cruel smile. The other, who lived in the country, was generous but poor, so that when he died he left his wife and two children, Nicholas and Kate, with hardly a penny to keep them from starving.
In their trouble the mother decided to go and try to obtain help from her husband's brother, Ralph Nickleby.