Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
By the age of nineteen, Nicholas Nickleby and his family are left penniless and need to ask for help from his merciless uncle, Ralph. Nicholas is sent to Dotheboys Hall, and runs away with the lad Smike after trashing the owner who was maltreating the boys there. Becoming an actor, he has then to enter service to make ends meet.
Charles Dickens was born in Kent, England, in 1812 and died in 1870. The novel, his third, was instantly popular. Told in episodes and with much humour, it is only towards the second half of the novel does the mood become more serious.
C.C. (U.K., 2016)