Item #215531 Martin Chuzzlewit. Charles Dickens.

Martin Chuzzlewit

Penguin Classics, January 1986. Mass Market PaperBack. Used - Good. Item #215531
ISBN: 0140430318

Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century America. Martin Chuzzlewit is the story of two Chuzzlewits, Martin and Jonas, who have inherited the characteristic Chuzzlewit selfishness. It contrasts their diverse fates: moral redemption and worldly success for one and increasingly desperate crime for the other. In her Introduction to this new edition, Patricia Ingham discusses how, in writing a story that was meant only to recommend "goodness and innocence", Dickens succeeded in exploring "the intertwining of moral sensibility and brutality"

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