When Nicholas Nickleby's father dies, the family is left with n< Nicholas and his family ask their Uncle Ralph for help. Ralph finds Nicholas a job as a teacher at Dotheboy's Hall, a terrible school in the north of England. There Nicholas has to protect the orphan Smike from the school's evil headmaster. Macmillan English Explorers have been written specifically for young learners of English. They bring first language teaching methods to reading lessons in first foreign language classrooms. Adapted by Gill Munton.