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Martin Chuzzlewit (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection) Paperback - 1998

by Charles Dickens


About this book

While writing Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens declared it 'immeasurably the best of my stories.' 

Set partly in America, 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, and increasingly desperate crime for the other. This powerful comedy involves hypocrisy, greed, and blackmail, as well as the most famous of Dickens's grotesques, Mrs. Gamp.

Martin Chuzzlewit is considered one of Dickens's last picaresque novels. 

From the rear cover

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.

First Edition Identification

Martin Chuzzlewit was published in 19 monthly installments, each comprising 32 pages of text and two illustrations by Hablot K. "Phiz" Browne. Published in 1842-1844. 

The first compiled book edition was published in1844 by Chapman & Hall.


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  • Title Martin Chuzzlewit (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)
  • Author Charles Dickens
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Pages 832
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd, Ware, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
  • Date April 1, 1998
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781853262050
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
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