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Martin Chuzzlewit (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection) Paperback – March 30, 1998

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Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens With an Introduction and Notes by Dr John Bowen, Department of English, University of Keele 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 and 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 and his grandfather's servant, Mary Graham with whom young Martin is in love. The commercial swindle of the Anglo-Bengalee company and 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, and 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 - 'Todgers'.

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At the center of Martin Chuzzlewit is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he suspects (with good reason) is that every one of his close and distant relations, now converging in droves on the country inn where they believe he is dying, will stop at nothing to become the inheritor of his great fortune. Having unjustly disinherited his grandson, young Martin, the old fellow now trusts no one but Mary Graham, the pretty girl hired as his companion. Though she has been made to understand she will not inherit a penny, she remains old Chuzzlewit's only ally. As the viperish relations and hangers-on close in on him, we meet some of Dickens's most marvelous characters - among them Mr. Pecksniff (whose name has entered the language as a synonym for ultimate hypocrisy and self-importance): the fabulously evil Jonas Chuzzlewit: the strutting reptile Tigg Montague: and the ridiculous, terrible, comical Sairey Gamp.

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Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, England,where his father was a naval pay clerk. He received some education at a small private school but this was curtailed when his father's fortunes declined. More significant was his childhood reading, which he evoked in a memory of his father's library: 'From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, The Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas and Robinson Crusoe came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time.'

When Dickens was ten the family moved to Camden Town, and this proved the beginning of a long, difficult period. When he had just turned twelve Dickens was sent to work for a manufacturer of boot blacking, where for the better part of a year he labored for ten hours a day, an unhappy experience that instilled him with a sense of having been abandoned by his family. Around the same time Dickens's father was jailed for debt in the Marshalsea Prison, where he remained for fourteen weeks. After some additional schooling, Dickens worked as a clerk in a law office and taught himself shorthand; this qualified him to begin working in 1831 as a reporter in the House of Commons, where he was known for the speed with which he took down speeches.By 1833 Dickens was publishing humorous sketches of London life in the Monthly Magazine, which were collected in book form as Sketches by (1836). These were followed by the publication in instalments of the comic adventures that becameThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837), whose unprecedented popularity made the twenty-five-year-old author a national figure. In 1836 he married Catherine Hogarth, who would bear him ten children over a period of fifteen years. Dickens characteristically wrote his novels for serial publication, and was himself the editor of many of the periodicals in which they appeared. Among his close associates were his future biographer John Forster and the younger Wilkie Collins, with whom he collaborated on fictional and dramatic works. In rapid succession he published Oliver Twist (1838), Nicholas Nickleby (1839), The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), and Barnaby Rudge (1841), sometimes working on several novels simultaneously. The appearance of A Christmas Carol in 1843 sealed his position as the most widely popular writer of his time; it became an annual tradition for him to write a story for the season. He continued to produce novels at only a slightly diminished rate, publishing Dombey and Son in 1848 and David Copperfield in 1850, his personal favorite among his books. From this point on his novels tended to be more elaborately constructed and harsher and less buoyant in tone than his earlier works. These late novels include Bleak House (1853), Hard Times (1854), Little Dorrit (1857), A Tale of Two Cities(1859), and Great Expectations (1861). Our Mutual Friend, published in 1865, was his last completed novel, and perhaps the most somber and savage of them all. Dickens had separated from his wife in 1858. He had become involved a year earlier with a young actress named Ellen Ternan and the ensuing scandal had alienated him from many of his former associates and admirers. He was weakened by years of overwork and by a near-fatal railroad disaster during the writing of Our Mutual Friend. Nevertheless he embarked on a series of public readings, including a return visit to America in 1867, which further eroded his health. A final work, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a crime novel much influenced by Wilkie Collins, was left unfinished upon his death on June 9,1870, at the age of 58.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wordsworth Editions Ltd (March 30, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 832 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1853262056
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1853262050
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1070
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.12 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 1.75 x 8 inches

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Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office. The family moved to London in 1823, but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was sent to work in a blacking-warehouse when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. In 1833 he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines, and in 1836 started the serial publication of Pickwick Papers. Thereafter, Dickens published his major novels over the course of the next twenty years, from Nicholas Nickleby to Little Dorrit. He also edited the journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Dickens died in June 1870.

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Paul J. Bouffard

it's Dickens. Prepare for a splendid long read!

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Personal pleasure read. use your prediction skills and you'll probably work this one out.

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DM Brooks

truly incredible satire: challenging and hillarious

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It is a story including a multitude of wonderfully designed, and seemingly living and breathing characters. It is a satire on human selfishness and where it will lead those who give into it. And much like Dicken's brighter books, though filled with darkness and sadness, there's always hope and expectation in the end. Good, for Dickens, always seem to prevail: much like it does in this life, even with its casualties.

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My friend was very happy with his book. He got several "LIncoln" books for his Christmas gifts - I was happy for him.

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Judy Wilson

a classic, attractively re-packaged

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I bought this for a Dickens-loving friend, but I wanted to keep it for myself. The cover is beautifully designed, and the inside is pure-unalloyed 19th century Dickens.

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A Shoddy Edition of a great book.

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This is strictly a review of this rather shoddy edition, not of Dickens' book itself. The Wordsworth Classics edition is riddled with misprints and muddled passages and needs a competent scholar to edit it. I strongly recommend you buy a different version of the novel.

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Peter Reeve

Great characters, wonderful humor

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This is Dickens' sixth novel, published in installments during 1843/4. It was very poorly received during publication, causing Dickens to make changes as he went along, such as adding a section that takes place in America. The latter just caused more trouble, offending his American readers. They were some time in forgiving him, but they eventually did.

Although it is easy to understand the American reaction (the episode is brutal satire) it is more difficult to understand the overall poor reception of the book. It has memorable characters plus generous helpings of comedy. Sarah Gamp in particular, is one of literature's great characters. Her mangling of the English language may be difficult for younger and non-British readers to understand but it is hilariously funny. There is a great deal of comedy also in the antics of the Pecksniff family.

The novel has the usual faults that you find in Dickens - the impossibly sweet and good heroine, the incredible coincidences in the plot, the unconvincing fraud - but these are far outweighed by the good things. Dickens is said to have regarded this as his best work.

As with many of Dickens' novels, there is no single, major, central protagonist. Just as with Barnaby Rudge, the eponymous hero plays a surprisingly minor role.

This should not be your first or only Dickens (unless you are particularly interested in what he had to say about America) but it is a very fine work and well worth reading, if only to make the acquaintance of Sarah Gamp.

You can safely skip the author's introduction, or if you do read it, don't be put off by it. The humor misfires badly. You're better going straight to the story.
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Eileen Shaw

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 28, 2010

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Perhaps Dickens' least loved novel - he radically altered his plot when sales of episodes declined, to introduce a satirical portrait of America by having the young Martin Chuzzlewit emigrate there. He declared it his favourite but his readership evidently found it slow-going. The ending is sentimental in the extreme and rather irritating when one of his heroines, Tom Pinch's sister, cannot be introduced without reference to her "little" this or "little" that, as if she was a small child rather than a grown woman. The opening chapters are peculiarly ornate and discursive without evincing much in the way of characters and it is not until one gets to the sixth or seventh chapter that one begins to settle back in one's armchair with the feeling that - ah, now we seem to be getting somewhere.

Whatever its faults in the beginning they are more than made up for by the mid-section and all that takes place when young Martin returns from America. The American section is pure satire - heavy-handed it is true and light on the sense that Dickens has taken these characters from life, but true to his sense that comic exaggeration is one method of making events live. The novel comes to a high-point in the chapters dealing with resolution of the various plot elements, with everything working out most satisfactorily and the loathsome Pecksniff's vanquishment.

There may be more to forgive here than with most of Dickens' novels, but it is still one of the most engrossing and glorious reading experiences to be had in the English Literary canon.

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Little Bren

Martin Chuzzlewit - excellent book

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I enjoyed reading this book - Martin Chuzzlewit - by Charles Dickens. It's a thick book, so took me a while to read it, but it was far better than I expected. I do like Dickens novels, but I hadn't read this before. A very enjoyable read.

L&H

Not as captivating as other Dickens novels

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How can you give Dickens less than five stars? Even when he is not at his best, there is so much to admire in his novels. Yes, I found this novel was a bit tedious. Sometimes you have to read on for a while to get again to enjoyable parts. May be one reason for the only moderate popularity of MC are the very bleak and depressing chapters on life in America. But then again those chapters are so revealing as to why the America of today is the way it is. For example, already back then they had that crazy love of arms. Or the contemporary form of McCarthyism. The end of the novel seems a bit unconvincing. Uncharacteristically, Dickens didn't unravel all the threads of his story: we never learn how the estrangement between MC and Tom Pinch in chapter 50 is cleared up.

MR KEVIN MULVENNA

I love Dickens

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The hero is of course not either of the Martin Chuzzlewit's but Tom Pinch

Pecksniff a great character, Jonas C'wit a great villian

I love Mark Tapley too

Barring the 'dated' introduction a critique of the aristocracy and the strange over the top satire on the USA - a great book

the BBC (with Paul Schofield) also series does a good job and wisely ignores most of the stuff on the USA

Mr. PE Scrivens

The Journey continues...........

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 27, 2015

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Having committed myself to read the catalogue of Charles Dickens works, this is where I am up to and it measures up completely compared to the previous novels I have read, (I started at the beginning). I haven't finished this one yet but am enjoying it immensely so far. It is an acquired taste of course, you love him or hate him. Most enjoyable!

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