Simon Gurr Bücher

In Charles Dickens" drittem Roman führtder junge Nikolaus Nickleby einen erbittertenKampf gegen soziale Ungerechtigkeit undausbeuterische Machenschaften. Selten schildertein Meisterwerk der Weltliteratur so spannend, liebevoll und kritisch die Entwicklung undden Überlebenskampf eines jungen Mannes. In einer von Profitgier und Heuchelei beherrschtenWelt scheinen Helden wie NikolausNickleby die letzte Hoffnung zu sein - nichtnur in Zeiten des Manchester-Kapitalismus.

Every town should have a 'card' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. But before he's thirty, he's made a lot of money, and had more adventures than you and I have had hot dinners. The town of Bursley never stops talking about him. Whatever will young Denry do next?