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Martin Chuzzlewit

Charles Dickens

Paperback | Pages: 830 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 14517 Users | 593 Reviews

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Title	:	Martin Chuzzlewit
Author	:	Charles Dickens
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 830 pages
Published	:	November 25th 1999 by Penguin Classics (first published 1844)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Literature

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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.

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Original Title:	The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
ISBN:	0140436146 (ISBN13: 9780140436143)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Pecksniff, Mrs. Sarah Gamp

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I think I was about two-thirds of the way into this book before it really became interesting. There were lots of characters and false starts towards a plot. Normally Dickens is a bit of a genius at pulling together disparate characters and plots but Martin Chuzzlewit was just to long and rambling. I am still trying to figure out what the point was of sending Martin Jr. off to America. That said, there were a couple characters that I really came to love and are now two of my favorite of Dickens



At the time of writing Dickens was convinced that Martin Chuzzlewit was his best book (amongst the lesser works which preceded it were such mediocre tomes as the Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby). Unfortunately the Victorian public did not agree with him, and its reputation as a minor work continues to this day.Having re-read it now for the first time in fifteen years, I can see both why Dickens esteemed it so and why others regard it less fondly. This is a novel which really

Reading (or in this case listening to) Dickens novels is like admiring one of those delightful handmade, patchwork quilts. They are built of a wide variety of patterns and colours of cloth, some pieces garish some more subdued, some represented by single squares, others provide a repeated pattern that runs across the finished whole. Taken in isolation some pieces are very attractive in themselves, some would be hideous seen on their own; but, when taken as a completed and finished piece, it can

To me, this is the soft spot of Dickens's writing. It is sprawling, which is fine, but it is messy. It has some interesting characters, but too often they serve little purpose or function. The one character exception is Pecksniff who creates both humour and ire in the reader, but his presence becomes annoying and I did not beg Dickens for more. The American adventures of Martin junior and Mark Tapley were painful to read. When Dickens titles a book after a character such as David Copperfield or

The Best of Boz and the Worst of BozMartin Chuzzlewit, which was published between 1843 and 1844 in monthly instalments and can be regarded as Dickenss last excursion into the genre of picaresque writing his next major novel, Dombey and Son would not see its first instalment before October 1846 and was much more carefully planned , witnessed a further waning of the star of Dickenss popularity as a writer, a development that had already started with its forerunner Barnaby Rudge. Dickens reacted

Ah, Dickens! This isn't up there with his best (A Tale of Two Cities, Our Mutual Friend, etc), but I almost couldn't bear giving it anything less than 5 stars b/c it has one of his loveliest characters in Tom Pinch, and of course who can't love Mark Tapley, one of a noble line of sturdy, jolly man-servants, right up there with Sam Weller and Sam Gamgee. A fun, lighthearted piece that I'll definitely go back to ~ although i'm sure Mark would agree that "there's no credit to being jolly" under any