Martin Chuzzlewit

Author: Dickens, Charles

Brand: Penguin

Color: Black

Edition: Reissue

Features:

• Penguin Books

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 864

Release Date: 01-08-2000

Part Number: 1720331

Details: Product Description


'Among the most powerful things Dickens ever did in fiction' GuardianGreed has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and name-sake 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 Dickens created many vividly realized figures, from Martin's optimistic manservant Mark Tapley to the drunken and corrupt private nurse Mrs Gamp. With its portrayal of greed, blackmail and murder, and its searing satire on America, Dickens's novel is a powerful and blackly comic story of hypocrisy and redemption.Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Patricia Ingham


Review


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.


About the Author


Charles Dickens (1812-70) is one of the most recognized celebrities of English literature. His many books include
Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and
A Christmas Carol.

Patricia Ingham is Senior Research Fellow and Reader at St Anne's College, Oxford. She has written on the Victorian novel and on Hardy in particular. she is the General Editor of all Hardy's fiction in the Penguin Classics and has edited Gaskell's
North and South for the series.

EAN: 9780140436143

Package Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.2 x 1.5 inches

Languages: English