<p>The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is an educational novel by Charles Dickens.<br><br>After the death of his father, Nicholas Nickleby, with the help of his rich uncle Ralph Nickleby, gets into a boarding school Dotheboys Hall Academy in Yorkshire.<br><br>Here Nicholas discovers that the school reminds more of a prison: children starve and go through cruel punishments. Nicholas gets to know a strange boy by the name of Smike whose se...