Martin Chuzzlewit By Charles Dickens (Paperback, 1994)

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With an Introduction & Notes by Dr John Bowen Department of English University of Keele Illustrations by Hablot K Browne (Phiz) Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer Forster noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 'springs of character' Old Martin Chuzzlewit tormented by the greed & selfishness of his family effectively drives his grandson young Martin to undertake a voyage to America It is a voyage which will have crucial consequences not only for young Martin but also for his grandfather & his grandfather's servant Mary Graham with whom young Martin is in love The commercial swindle of the Anglo-Bengalee company & the fraudulent Eden Land Corporation have a topicality in our own time This strong sub-plot shows evidence of Dickens' mastery of crime where characters such as the criminal Jonas Chuzzlewit the old nurse Mrs Gamp & the arch-hypocrite Seth Pecksniff are the equal to any in his other great novels Generations of readers have also delighted in Dickens' wonderful description of the London boarding-house
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