Martin Chuzzlewit

副标题: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

ISBN: 9780140436143

作者: Charles Dickens

出版社: Penguin Classics

出版年: 2000-8

页数: 864

定价: USD 14.00

装帧: 平装

内容简介

The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his Grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so Young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seed his fortune in America. In depicting Martin's Journey Dickens created many vividly realized figures: the brutish lout Jonas Chuzzlewit, plotting jto gain the family fortune; Martin's optimistic manservant Mark Tapley; gentle Tom Pinch; and the drunken and corrupt private nurse Mrs Gamp. With its portrayal of greed, blackmail and murder, and its searing satire on America, Dicken's novel is a powerful and blackly comic story of hypocrisy and redemption.