Martin Chuzzlewit
by Charles Dickens
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-
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Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
Household Edition
hardcover
Publisher:
Lee and Shepard 1878
Condition:
Good - general wear, previous owner's bookplate attached to the endpaper, flyleaf and title page are loose
front hinge starting
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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- 2143
- Title
- Martin Chuzzlewit
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Household Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lee & Shepard
- Date Published
- 1878
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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