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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

By Charles Dickens , Patricia Ingham

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Year
2000
ISBN
0140436146, 9780140436143, 9780786512683
LCC
PR4563.A2 I54 1999
Open Library ID
OL6899374M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5216773 bytes)
Series
Penguin Classics
Edition
1St Edition
Pages
860\860
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

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.

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