Martin Chuzzlewit Paperback - 2000
by Charles Dickens; Introduction by Patricia Ingham; Notes by Patricia Ingham
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.
Summary
In her introduction to this new Penguin Classics edition, Patricia Ingham discusses how, in writing a story that was only meant to 'recommend goodness and innocence', Dickens succeeded in exploring 'the intertwining of moral sensibility and brutality.'
First line
As no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathise with the Chuzzlewit Family without being first assured of the extreme antiquity of the race, it is a great satisfaction to know that it undoubtedly descended in a direct line from Adam and Eve; and was, in the very earliest times, closely connected with the agricultural interest.
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
- Author Charles Dickens; Introduction by Patricia Ingham; Notes by Patricia Ingham
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 864
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date August 1, 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780140436143 / 0140436146
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 5.11 x 1.47 in (19.71 x 12.98 x 3.73 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1070
- Library of Congress subjects England, Adventure stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00708797
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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