Martin Chuzzlewit: Household Edition
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Plano, Texas, United States
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About This Item
FON on FFEP of each volume.
Covers are faded and bumped, with wear on the top & heels of spines (volumes 2 & 3 top spines are frayed), and bent corners. Pages are age tanned with occasional stains. Volume 1 protective tissue is torn, cracking at half-title all volumes.
Synopsis
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. Martin Chuzzlewit is considered one of Dickens's last picaresque novels.
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Details
- Bookseller
- PWK Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DH5
- Title
- Martin Chuzzlewit
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- F.O.C. Darley and John Gilbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Four volumes.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Works of Charles Dickens. Household Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sheldon and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1862
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- dickens, chuzzlewit, household edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- PWK Novels; Works of Charles Dickens; Works of Charles Dickens: Household Edition;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...
- Cloth
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