Martin Chuzzlewit will illustrations by Phiz

Charles Dickens

Verlag: Odhams Press Long Acre, 1930

Beschreibung

Condition: (see pics.) Vintage copy of the book with red cloth boards and embossed author's profile on the front cover. Slight rubbing to the corner edges and spine slightly faded. Well bound and a generally solid copy. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Phiz. Synopsis: While writing Martin Chuzzlewit - his sixth novel - Dickens declared it 'immeasurably the best of my stories.' He was already famous as the author of The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist. Set partly in America, which Dickens had visited in 1842, 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, with increasingly desperate crime for the other. This powerful black comedy involves hypocrisy, greed and blackmail, as well as the most famous of Dickens's grotesques, Mrs Gamp. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1648747089902

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Martin Chuzzlewit will illustrations by Phiz

Verlag: Odhams Press Long Acre

Erscheinungsdatum: 1930

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: Limited Edition