Martin Chuzzlewit

Author(s): Charles Dickens

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The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzle wit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seek his fortune in America. In depicting Martin's journey - an experience that teaches him to question his inherited self-interest and egotism - Dickens created many vividly realized figures: the brutish lout Jonas Chuzzlewit, plotting to gain the family fortune; Martin's optimistic manservant, Mark Tapley; gentle Tom Pinch; and the drunken and corrupt private nurse, Mrs Gamp. With its portrayal of greed, blackmail and murder, and its searing satire on America Dickens' novel is a powerful and blackly comic story of hypocrisy and redemption.

General Information

  • : 9780140436143
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.586
  • : April 2000
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 36mm
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Charles Dickens
  • : Paperback
  • : 4
  • : en
  • : 823.8
  • : very good
  • : 864
  • : 38 b&w illustrations, notes
  • : 38 b&w illustrations, notes

More About The Product

Martin Chuzzlewit is a dramatic serial on Masterpiece Theatre, a PBS television series presented by WGBH-TV, Boston, made possible by a grant from Mobil Corporation.

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful PICKWICK PAPERS (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years. Dickens is considered one of the greatest novelists in the English language. Patricia Ingham is Fellow of St Anne's College, Reader in English, and The Times Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford.