Martin Chuzzlewit (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Charles Dickens
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 185715200X
- ISBN 13
- 9781857152005
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About This Item
Everyman's Library, October 20, 1994. New. The distinctive combination of manic comedy, bitter satire and fierce melodrama separates this novel from its author's other works. Published in 1844 after Dickens returned from America, the action moves between Britain and United States in ways which highligh the failing of both societies. The Everyman edition is being published to tie in with a major BBC TV serialization in the autumn.
992 pp.Synopsis
While writing Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens declared it 'immeasurably the best of my stories.' Set partly in America, the novel includes a searing satire on the United States. Martin Chuzzlewit is the story of two Chuzzlewits, Martin and Jonas, who have inherited the characteristic Chuzzlewit selfishness. It contrasts their diverse fates of moral redemption and worldly success for one, and increasingly desperate crime for the other. This powerful comedy involves hypocrisy, greed, and blackmail, as well as the most famous of Dickens's grotesques, Mrs. Gamp. Martin Chuzzlewit is considered one of Dickens's last picaresque novels.
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- Title
- Martin Chuzzlewit (Everyman's Library Classics)
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- Perfect
- Quantity Available
- 4
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 185715200X
- ISBN 13
- 9781857152005
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- October 20, 1994
- Keywords
- 19th century fiction; Literature: Classics
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