品牌：Charles Dickens
基本信息
·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：864 页码
·出版日：2000年
·ISBN：0140436146
·条码：9780140436143
·装帧：平装
·英语：英语
·丛书名：Penguin Classics
内容简介
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Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century America.Martin Chuzzlewitis the story of two Chuzzlewits, Martin and Jonas, who have inherited the characteristic Chuzzlewit selfishness. It contrasts their diverse fates: moral redemption and worldly success for one and increasingly desperate crime for the other. In her Introduction to this new edition, Patricia Ingham discusses how, in writing a story that was meant only to recommend "goodness and innocence," Dickens succeeded in exploring "the intertwining of moral sensibility and brutality."
作者简介
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), despite an impoverished childhood and little formal education, achieved lasting artistic and popular success with the novelsOliver Twist,David Copperfield,A Tale of Two Cities, andGreat Expectations, all of which were originally published in serial form.
Patricia Ingham is a Fellow of St. Anne's College, Reader in English, andThe TimesLecturer in English Language at Oxford University.
编辑推荐
From AudioFile
Old Martin Chuzzlewit has a great fortune, but to whom can he leave it? He and his likable grandson, young Martin, have fallen out. Beyond that, a tangle of sly, grasping relatives coil about him. Throughout, the reader is rooting for the gentle Tom Pinch and his lovely sister, Mary. But before all can be decided, Dickens puts both Tom and young Martin through murder, mayhem and a brief purgatory in the United States. Reader Davidson quickly tunes into Dickens's ferocious irony, but his paramount strength is his uncanny ability to find and maintain the perfect voice for each of the vintage characters: drippy, insinuous, vicious, sly, bold American backwoods, or London Cheapside. Each is a distinct creation! Dickens lovers will treasure every tape in this two-volume masterpiece. P.E.F.An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine--This text refers to theAudio Cassetteedition.
Review
Martin Chuzzlewit is a dramatic serial on Masterpiece Theatre, a PBS television series presented by WGBH-TV, Boston, made possible by a grant from Mobil Corporation.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
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