Martin Chuzzlewit - Softcover
Paperback. Pub Date :2012-08-30 Pages: 992 Language: English Publisher: Penguin PressClassics The Penguin English Library Edition of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens.I plainly see to what foul uses all this money will be put ... sowing perjury . hatred. and lies among near kindred. where there should be nothing but loveOld Martin Chuzzlewit. in despair at a family more interested in his wealth than his wellbeing. drives out his grandson and namesake. While the younger Martin leaves to make his own way in the world. love of money drives the hypocritical Pecksniff into scheming his way closer to the older man. and compels Jonas Chuzzlewit to even darker deeds.Dickens thought Martin Chuzzlewit in a hundred points immeasurably the best of my stories. A sinister. funny novel of greed. selfishness. blackmail and murder. it also sees Dickenss scathing moral sense make the voyag...
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Review:
"A novel that British readers love, and American readers love to hate...the American scenes are among the most powerful things Dickens ever did in fiction" (Guardian)
"Peckniff, the arch villain of Martin Chuzzlewit, is in some ways the archetypal hypocrite and yet he's constantly surprising you...vivid detail" (David Lodge Time Out)
"One of my favourite characters in English literature is the redoubtable Mark Tapley - a curious hybrid of Jeeves and Pollyanna who inhabits the pages of Dickens's great novel, Martin Chuzzlewit." (Michael Simkins Daily Telegraph)
"Like all Dickens' novels it manages to combine social justice with humour" (Author Nicholas Rhea)
"After leaving school, I sought refuge from the perils of office life by reading under my desk or on park benches during the lunch hour. Dickens was my preferred means of escape" (Jeremy Lewis Daily Telegraph)
Book Description:
"Peckniff, the arch villain of Martin Chuzzlewit, is in some ways the archetypal hypocrite and yet he's constantly surprising you...vivid detail" (David Lodge Time Out)
"One of my favourite characters in English literature is the redoubtable Mark Tapley - a curious hybrid of Jeeves and Pollyanna who inhabits the pages of Dickens's great novel, Martin Chuzzlewit." (Michael Simkins Daily Telegraph)
"Like all Dickens' novels it manages to combine social justice with humour" (Author Nicholas Rhea)
"After leaving school, I sought refuge from the perils of office life by reading under my desk or on park benches during the lunch hour. Dickens was my preferred means of escape" (Jeremy Lewis Daily Telegraph)
Martin Chuzzlewit is a comic masterpiece which courted controversy on publication with its scathing portrayal of nineteenth-century America
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0141198907
- ISBN 13 9780141198903
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages992
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