Nobody's Story

Nobody's Story is a short story written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1853.

The story recounts the life of a man who works hard in the fields and ponders whether to give his hard-earned money to the neighboring family, the Bigwins, who take advantage of the situation to control his economic affairs.

Dickens explores the plight of the poor, showing the differences between them and those in power. The rulers are too busy debating how they should help them, and even whether they should help them or not, but they waste their time without really helping.

One of Dickens' favorite themes, the division between social classes, reappears in this story. In this case, that tension between different classes is patent and results in the learning of certain lessons. Which are learned by Nobody...