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Wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit is surrounded by a host of grasping, unscrupulous relatives & suspects the family vices of selfishness & greed are already showing in his grandson. The younger Martin is therefore cast out upon the world to learn to fend for himself. Apprenticed to the oily hypocrite Peckniff, he meets both the sweet-tempered Tom Pinch & the irrepressible Mark Tapley, with whom he sets forth to America to find his fortune. Dickens created some of his most gleefully repulsive & enduring characters in this tale of corruption & virtue, murder & unrequited love. ...

The distinctive combination of manic comedy, bitter satire & fierce melodrama separates this novel from its author's other works. Published in 1844 after Dickens returned from America, the action moves between Britain & United States in ways which highligh the failing of both societies. The Everyman edition is being published to tie in with a major BBC TV serialization in the autumn. ...

MARTIN MCGUINESS: FROM GUNS TO GOVERNMENT tells the story of Martin Mc Guiness' personal journey from undistinguished IRA volunteer to the man that THE COOK REPORT called ' Britain's No.1 Terrorist'. By the end of the 90s, Esquire magazine rated him the second most powerful man in the United Kingdom after Rupert Murdoch. &, although, he denies ever having ever been IRA Chief of Staff, he says that he regards the charge as a compliment. Mc Guiness, former Chief of Staff of the IRA & first Minister for Education in the Northern Ireland Assembly, is the lynchpin of the current ceasefire. He has been described as 'excellent officer material', 'the personification of the armed struggle', & 'IRA godfather of godfathers'. Yet he is also a devout Catholic, a husband & father of four & a keen poet & fisherman. In his native Derry, he is equally revered & reviled. Completely revised & updated to include new evidence relating to the Saville Inquiry, fresh information on Mc Guiness' role in Bloody Sunday & revelations of IRA spying at Stormont & Castlereagh police station, this book uncovers the truth behind the enigmatic & intensely private individual who holds the peace process in the palm of his h&. It also

Includes:: new appendices detailing Mc Guiness' full criminal record, his various positions in the IRA & transcripts of telephone conversations between Mc Guiness

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Martin Nadaud tells the true story of an itinerant stone mason from the Creuse region, at the georgraphical heart of France, who became a builder & architect in Paris & who would eventually return to his birthplace as Prefect of the entire department. Self-taught, Nadaud was a republican who warmed to the emerging theories of socialism that would liberate so many of his class. After the failure of the 1848 revolution, he was forced to flee to a long & lonely political exile in London, returning again to Paris at the time of the Commune in 1871 to regain his public life. ...