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MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT

Dickenssimon Callow Charles

Oprawa:
MIĘKKA

Wydawca:
Random House

Data premiery:
2010-11-04

ISBN:
9780099540854

61,36 PLN
Wysyłamy w 21 dni

Opis produktu

Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 in Landport in Portsmouth. His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office who often ended up in financial trouble. When Dickens was twelve years old he was sent to work in a shoe polish factory because his father had been imprisoned for debt.In 1833 he began to publish short stories and essays in newspapers and magazines. The Pickwick Papers his first commercial success was published in 1836 the same year that he married Catherine Hogarth. The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837 while The Pickwick Papers was still running. Many other novels followed and Dickens became a celebrity in America as well as Britain. He also set up and edited the journals Household Words (18509) and All the Year Round (185970). Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870 leaving his last novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWWealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit is surrounded by a host of grasping unscrupulous relatives and suspects the family vices of selfishness and greed are already showing in his grandson. The younger Martin is therefore cast out upon the world to learn to fend for himself. Apprenticed to the oily hypocrite Peckniff he meets both the sweettempered Tom Pinch and the irrepressible Mark Tapley with whom he sets forth to America to find his fortune. Dickens created some of his most gleefully repulsive and enduring characters in this tale of corruption and virtue murder and unrequited love.Martin Chuzzlewit is a comic masterpiece which courted controversy on publication with its scathing portrayal of nineteenthcentury AmericaA novel that British readers love and American readers love to hate...the American scenes are among the most powerful things Dickens ever did in fictionPeckniff the arch villain of Martin Chuzzlewit is in some ways the archetypal hypocrite and yet hes constantly surprising you...vivid detailOne of my favourite characters in English literature is the redoubtable Mark Tapley a curious hybrid of Jeeves and Pollyanna who inhabits the pages of Dickenss great novel Martin Chuzzlewit.Like all Dickens novels it manages to combine social justice with humourAfter leaving school I sought refuge from the perils of office life by reading under my desk or on park benches during the lunch hour. Dickens was my preferred means of escape

Data Publikacji: 2010-11-04
Wymiary: 198 mm 129 mm 40 mm 581 gr

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