The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (with 40 illustrations by "Phiz")

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Condition: (see pics.) 1926 Edition. Red cloth boards with gilded front cover and spine. Rubbing to the corners of the spine and boards. A faded red ribbon marker still in place. Gilded page ends top, bottom and side. Small, neat hand written name on front endpaper. A solid copy in a very good, clean and tight condition. 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. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1648643437258

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