martin chuzzlewit [ laurel dickens series] Unknown - 2005
by charles dickens
About this book
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.
First Edition Identification
Martin Chuzzlewit was published in 19 monthly installments, each comprising 32 pages of text and two illustrations by Hablot K. "Phiz" Browne. Published in 1842-1844. The first compiled book edition was published in1844 by Chapman & Hall.
Details
- Title martin chuzzlewit [ laurel dickens series]
- Author charles dickens
- Binding unknown
- Publisher Dell laurel 1965 printing
- Date 2005-09
- ISBN 9780451004949
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Martin Chuzzlewit (Signet Classical Books) Dickens, Charles
by Dickens, Charles
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