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.
Autor | Charles Dickens |
Wydawnictwo | Wordsworth |
Rok wydania | 1997 |
Oprawa | miękka |
Liczba stron | 814 |
Format | 12.5x19.5cm |
Numer ISBN | 9781853262050 |
Kod paskowy (EAN) | 9781853262050 |
Waga | 540 g |
Data premiery | 2012.08.03 |
Data pojawienia się | 2012.08.03 |
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