"Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film) Nicholas Nickleby is a 2002 British-American drama film written and directed by Douglas McGrath. The screenplay is based on ""The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"" by Charles Dickens, which originally was published in serial form between March 1838 and September 1839. Charlie Hunnam stars in the titular role alongside Nathan Lane, Jim Broadbent, Christopher Plummer, Jamie Bell, Anne Hathaway, Alan Cumming, and Timothy Spall. A prologue introduces the Nickelbys, country gentry who enjoy a comfortable life in the Devon countryside until the father dies and leaves his family with no source of income. Nineteen-year-old Nicholas,"
"Elizabeth Dickens Elizabeth Culliford Dickens (née Barrow; 21 December 1789 – 13 September 1863) was the wife of John Dickens and the mother of English novelist Charles Dickens. She was the source for Mrs. Nickleby in her son's novel ""Nicholas Nickleby"" and for Mrs Micawber in ""David Copperfield"". One of eight children of Mary Culliford (1771–1851) and Charles Barrow (1759–1826), Elizabeth Barrow was introduced to John Dickens by her brother, Thomas Culliford Barrow, when the two men were working at the Navy Pay Office in nearby Somerset House. When John Dickens first met Elizabeth she was ""a small pretty girl"
"and the plight of the poor and oppressed. His most important works include ""Oliver Twist"" (1837–39), ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (183839)"", A Christmas Carol"" (1843), ""Dombey and Son"" (1846–48), ""David Copperfield"" (184950), ""Bleak House"" (185253), ""Little Dorrit"" (185557), ""A Tale of Two Cities"" (1859), and ""Great Expectations"" (186061). There is a gradual trend in his fiction towards darker themes which mirrors a tendency in much of the writing of the 19th century. William Thackeray was Dickens' great rival in the first half of Queen Victoria's reign. With a similar style but a slightly more detached, acerbic and barbed satirical view of his"
"22 of his novel ""Nicholas Nickleby"" published in 1838-9: They ""[Nicholas Nickleby and Smike]"" walked upon the rim of the Devil's Punch Bowl; and Smike listened with greedy interest as Nicholas read the inscription upon the stone which, reared upon that wild spot, tells of a murder committed there by night. The grass on which they stood, had once been dyed with gore; and the blood of the murdered man had run down, drop by drop, into the hollow which gives the place its name. 'The Devil's Bowl,' thought Nicholas, as he looked into the void, 'never held fitter liquor"
"award-winning production of Nicholas Nickleby in London and New York. He also wrote a popular book about the making of the production: The Nicholas Nickleby Story, published by Heinemann in the UK and Penguin in the USA He is at present (since 2007) Director of East 15 Acting School, part of the University of Essex, UK and was former Head of Drama at Middlesex University, He was Chair of CDS (Conference of Drama Schools) before it became part of Drama UK and was one of the guiding founders and now sits on the Board. Leon has directed plays for numerous"
"Beverley Nichols John Beverley Nichols (9 September 1898 – 15 September 1983) was an English author, playwright, journalist, composer, and public speaker. Between his first book, the novel ""Prelude"", published in 1920, and his last, a book of poetry, ""Twilight"", published in 1982, Nichols wrote more than 60 books and plays. Besides novels, mysteries, short stories, essays and children's books, he wrote a number of nonfiction books on travel, politics, religion, cats, parapsychology, and autobiography. He wrote for a number of magazines and newspapers throughout his life, the longest being weekly columns for the London Sunday ""Chronicle"" newspaper (1932–1943) and"
"works of 19th century comedy, ""Nicholas Nickleby"" is occasionally criticised for its lack of character development. The novel has been adapted for stage, film or television at least seven times. A large-scale version (from playwright David Edgar) was premiered in 1980 in the West End by the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was a theatrical experience which lasted more than ten hours (counting intermissions and a dinner break – the actual playing time was approximately eight-and-a-half hours). The production received both critical and popular acclaim. All of the actors played multiple roles because of the huge number of characters, except for"
"Madame Mantalini. In 2001, ITV produced ""The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"" winning a BAFTA and an RTS award for costume design. It was directed by Stephen Whittaker. It features James D'Arcy, Charles Dance, Pam Ferris, Lee Ingleby, Gregor Fisher, Tom Hollander, J. J. Feild and Tom Hiddleston. In 2002, ""Nicholas Nickleby"" was released. It was directed by American director Douglas McGrath and its cast featured Charlie Hunnam, Anne Hathaway, Jamie Bell, Alan Cumming, Jim Broadbent, Christopher Plummer, Juliet Stevenson, Nathan Lane, Tom Courtenay and Barry Humphries. In 2012, the novel was adapted as a modern drama (with several"
"Charles Dickens wrote Nicholas Nickleby. It is also noteworthy that he was offering ""instruction in art and science"". How many schools at that date would have thought of including science in their curriculum? At Hazelwood School, with his sons now bearing a full share in its running, it became a school in which the rules were formed by a committee of the boys, elected by the boys, and enforced by the boys' own law court. Whether or not that is a good way to run a school, the amazing thing is that it existed at all at that time. In"
"John Nichols (writer) John Treadwell Nichols (born July 23, 1940, Berkeley, California) is an American novelist. Nichols is the author of the ""New Mexico trilogy"", a series about the complex relationship among history, race and ethnicity, and land and water rights in the fictional town of Chamisaville, New Mexico. The trilogy consists of ""The Milagro Beanfield War"" (which was adapted into a movie of the same title directed by Robert Redford), ""The Magic Journey"", and ""The Nirvana Blues"". Two of his other novels have been made into films. ""The Wizard of Loneliness"" was published in 1966, and the film version"
"that recast topics in Victorian literature for general audiences, including a series of pieces that he wrote for The Guardian from 2009-2010. In 2018, Varese was a contributor to the ""Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens"". His chapter on ""Nicholas Nickleby"" examined the role of contracts and English contract law in relation to Dickens’s fiction during a time when concepts like copyright, intellectual property, and royalty payments were all still being formulated and debated in both professional and legal spheres. Varese served as the Director of Digital Initiatives for The Dickens Project from 2010-2016, but earlier directed the development of the"
"Nicholas Kaufmann Nicholas Kaufmann (born February 21, 1969) is an American author of horror fiction, urban fantasy, and adventure fiction. His work has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, The Shirley Jackson Award, and the International Thriller Writers Award. Kaufmann was born in New York City to parents Lois G. Kaufmann (née Gordon), a medical receptionist, and John M. P. Kaufmann, a wholesale leather supplier. He spent much of his youth in Westport, Connecticut, where he attended Coleytown Elementary School until the sixth grade. Moving back to New York City, he attended and graduated from Columbia Grammar and Preparatory"
"not by day, Smike—not by day.' "" Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1838–39 Dickens was born in Portsmouth and visited the theatre in 1838 to research Nicholas Nickleby. He was not only a brilliant writer but a consummate performer and would-be actor. His readings were legendary and made him a 19th-century celebrity. There is a belief that he may have performed at the Portsmouth Theatre but this is unlikely. His descriptions in Nicholas Nickleby show that in addition to the auditorium he visited the stage and back stage but his career as a public performer began some ten years into his"
"Thomas Nickerson Thomas Gibson Nickerson (March 20, 1805 – February 7, 1883) was an American sailor and author. In 1819, when he was fourteen years old, Nickerson served as cabin boy on the whaleship ""Essex"". On this voyage, the ship was sunk by a whale it was pursuing, and the crew spent three months at sea before the survivors were rescued. In 1876 he wrote ""The Loss of the Ship ""Essex,"""" an account of the ordeal and of his subsequent experiences at sea. The manuscript was lost until 1960, and was first published in 1984. Nickerson was born in Harwich,"
"was a homosexual and is known to have had an affair with a famous war poet, Siegfried Sassoon. Nichols' long-term companion was Cyril Butcher, who was the main beneficiary of Nichols's will, amounting to £131,750 (£ in sterling). Beverley Nichols was buried in Glatton, England. | valign=top | Beverley Nichols John Beverley Nichols (9 September 1898 – 15 September 1983) was an English author, playwright, journalist, composer, and public speaker. Between his first book, the novel ""Prelude"", published in 1920, and his last, a book of poetry, ""Twilight"", published in 1982, Nichols wrote more than 60 books and plays. Besides"
"Nikolski (novel) Nikolski is an award-winning novel by Canadian writer Nicolas Dickner. Originally published in 2005 in French, an English edition translated by Lazer Lederhendler was published in 2008. The original French edition was a nominee for the 2005 Governor General's Award for French fiction and won the Prix Anne-Hébert in 2006. The English translation won the 2008 Governor General's Award for French-to-English translation, and the 2010 edition of ""Canada Reads"". The novel's story is set in Montreal and revolves around three seemingly disconnected characters (Noah, Joyce and an unnamed narrator) whose lives eventually intersect in the city's Plateau neighbourhood."
"by Troubles, on the subject of male mental health. He has been married to writer/actress Bronágh Taggart since 2008. Jonathan Harden Jonathan Harden is a Northern Irish actor, director and mental health advocate. Born in Belfast in 1979 to an American mother and an Irish father, he is best known as series regular Sean Rawlins in ITV crime drama ""Unforgotten"", Gregory in the final series of ""Peep Show"", Walter Hill in """", as Newman Noggs in ""Nick Nickleby"" - a BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens novel, ""The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"" (which he also narrated) – and for"
"Jonathan Harden Jonathan Harden is a Northern Irish actor, director and mental health advocate. Born in Belfast in 1979 to an American mother and an Irish father, he is best known as series regular Sean Rawlins in ITV crime drama ""Unforgotten"", Gregory in the final series of ""Peep Show"", Walter Hill in """", as Newman Noggs in ""Nick Nickleby"" - a BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens novel, ""The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"" (which he also narrated) – and for his cameo in """". Over his career as an actor, Harden has been cast by some of the industry's"
"his family grew. However, this is his only surviving London house. The two years that Dickens lived in the house were extremely productive, for here he completed ""The Pickwick Papers"" (1836), wrote the whole of ""Oliver Twist"" (1838) and ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (1838–39) and worked on ""Barnaby Rudge"" (1840–41). The building at 48 Doughty Street was threatened with demolition in 1923, but was saved by the Dickens Fellowship, founded in 1902, who raised the mortgage and bought the property's freehold. The house was renovated and the Dickens House Museum was opened in 1925, under the direction of an independent trust, now"
"Nick Hornby Nicholas Peter John Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English writer and lyricist. He is best known for his memoir ""Fever Pitch"" and novels ""High Fidelity"" and ""About a Boy"", all of which were adapted into feature films. Hornby's work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists. His books have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide as of 2018. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Hornby was named the 29th most influential person in British culture. Hornby was born in Redhill, Surrey, the son of Sir Derek Peter"
"Hannibal (Harris novel) Hannibal is a novel by American author Thomas Harris, published in 1999. It is the third in his series featuring Dr. Hannibal Lecter and the second to feature FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. The novel takes place seven years after the events of ""The Silence of the Lambs"" and deals with the intended revenge of one of Lecter's victims. It was adapted as a film of the same name in 2001, directed by Ridley Scott. Elements of the novel were incorporated into the second season of the NBC television series ""Hannibal"", while the show's third season adapted"
"Charles Willeford Charles Ray Willeford III (January 2, 1919 – March 27, 1988) was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Willeford is best known for his series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. Willeford published steadily from the 1940s, but vaulted to wider attention with first Hoke Moseley book, ""Miami Blues"" (1984), which is considered one of its era's most influential works of crime fiction. Film adaptations have been made of three of Willeford's novels: ""Cockfighter"", ""Miami Blues"", and ""The Woman Chaser"". Willeford was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1919. Following the"
"Grove Hall Park Grove Hall Park is a 1.19 ha public park in Tower Hamlets, East London. It includes play areas, a ball games area, and a small walled memorial garden. Grove Hall Park was opened as a public park in 1909 following its purchase by the local authority in an auction in 1906. Previously the land had been in the possession of the Byas family, who had established Grove Hall Private Lunatic Asylum on the plot in 1820. This establishment primarily catered for ex-servicemen and was featured in Charles Dickens' novel ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (1839). In 1878 it was the"
"Nick of the Woods Nick of the Woods; or, The Jibbenainesay is an 1837 novel by American author Robert Montgomery Bird. Noted today for its savage depiction of Native Americans, it was Bird's most successful novel and a best-seller at the time of its release. The novel was eventually published in twenty-three editions in English, and four translations, including a best-selling German translation by Gustav Höcker. The long popularity of the novel is evidenced by the fact that Mark Twain referenced the main character of the book in 1883's ""Life on the Mississippi"", presuming the audience would know the reference."
"to discuss them. ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (1838–39), ""The Old Curiosity Shop"" (184041) and, finally, his first historical novel, ""Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty"", as part of the ""Master Humphrey's Clock"" series (1840–41), were all published in monthly instalments before being made into books. In the midst of all his activity during this period, there was discontent with his publishers and John Macrone was bought off, while Richard Bentley signed over all his rights in ""Oliver Twist"". Other signs of a certain restlessness and discontent emerge—in Broadstairs he flirted with Eleanor Picken, the young fiancée of his solicitor's"
"Nicholas Sparks Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965) is an American romance novelist and screenwriter. He has published twenty novels and two non-fiction books. Several of his novels have become international bestsellers, and eleven of his romantic-drama novels have been adapted to film all with multimillion-dollar box office grosses. Sparks was born in Omaha, Nebraska and wrote his first novel, ""The Passing"", in 1985, while a student at the University of Notre Dame. His first published work came in 1990, when he co-wrote with Billy Mills ""Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding"", which sold approximately 50,000 copies"
"Nicholas Shakespeare Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare FRSL (born 3 March 1957) is a British novelist and biographer, described by the ""Wall Street Journal"" as ""one of the best English novelists of our time"". Born in Worcester, England, to a diplomat, Shakespeare grew up in the Far East and in South America. He was educated at the Dragon School preparatory school in Oxford, then at Winchester College and at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He worked as a journalist for BBC television and then on ""The Times"" as assistant arts and literary editor. From 1988 to 1991 he was literary editor of ""The"
"the manuscript to the Association, who published an abridged version in 1984, a century after Nickerson's death. Nickerson's historical character was dramatized in three films: Thomas Nickerson Thomas Gibson Nickerson (March 20, 1805 – February 7, 1883) was an American sailor and author. In 1819, when he was fourteen years old, Nickerson served as cabin boy on the whaleship ""Essex"". On this voyage, the ship was sunk by a whale it was pursuing, and the crew spent three months at sea before the survivors were rescued. In 1876 he wrote ""The Loss of the Ship ""Essex,"""" an account of the"
"with his second wife, Rachel. Dobbs has raised money for his neighbour, who is paralysed as a result of a rugby injury. He walked from his home town in Wylye to his old school Richard Hale. He completed this on the 27 March 2015. Michael Dobbs is a distant relative of the US non-fiction author with the same name. The two are sometimes confused. Francis Urquhart Novels Tom Goodfellowe Novels Winston Churchill Novels Harry Jones Thrillers Non-series novels Michael Dobbs Michael Dobbs, Baron Dobbs (born 14 November 1948) is a British Conservative politician and best-selling author, most notably for his"
"The Night of Wenceslas The Night of Wenceslas is the debut novel of British thriller and crime writer Lionel Davidson. This Bildungsroman describes the reluctant adventures of Nicolas Whistler, a dissolute young man of mixed English and Czech parentage who finds himself caught up against his will in Cold War espionage. The novel won the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award in 1960 and the Author's Club First Novel Award. It was filmed in 1964 under the title ""Hot Enough for June"". Nicolas is a 24-year-old Londoner, a witty wastrel and the novel's archetypal anti-hero. He hates his job in"
"Neuromancer Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson. It is one of the best-known works in the cyberpunk genre and the first novel to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. It was Gibson's debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy. Set in the future, the novel follows Henry Case, a washed-up computer hacker, who is hired by the mysterious master criminal Armitage and the equally mysterious mercenary cyborg Molly Millions for one last job: to help a powerful artificial intelligence merge with its twin into a"
"Opera) 2015: ""Twelfth Night"" (Nissay Theatre, Tokyo) 2015: ""McQueen"" (St. James & Haymarket Theatres, London) 2015: ""Love’s Labour’s Lost"" (Stratford Festival, Canada) 2015: ""Daddy Long Legs"" (Davenport Theatre, New York) 2015: ""Tosca"" (Houston Grand Opera) 2015 ""At Home in the World"" (Tokyo, NY and DC) 2016 ""At Home in the World"" (Ndere Centre, Kampala) 2017 ""Hamlet"" (Geigeki Theatre, Tokyo) 2017 ""La Bohème"" (San Francisco) 2018 ""Don Giovanni (""WNO"","" Cardiff) 1980 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director for ""Nicholas Nickleby"". 1981 Evening Standard Drama Award for Best Director for ""Nicholas Nickleby"". 1982 Tony Award for Best Director for ""Nicholas Nickleby"". 1982"
"Guy Boothby Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 – 26 February 1905) was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. He is best known for such works as the Dr Nikola series, about an occultist criminal mastermind who is a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu, and ""Pharos, the Egyptian"", a tale of Gothic Egypt, mummies' curses and supernatural revenge. Rudyard Kipling was his friend and mentor, and his books were remembered with affection by George Orwell. Boothby was born in Adelaide to"