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Martin Chuzzlewit

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#438464-VE58
Titel	Martin Chuzzlewit
Auteur	Dickens, Charles
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1987
ISBN10	0192545094
ISBN13	9780192545091
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original brown cloth, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, with the original illustrations in b/w, 8vo. The Oxford Illustrated Dickens.
Samenvatting	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 seek his fortune in America. In depicting Martin's journey – an experience that teaches him to question his inherited self-interest and egotism – Dickens created many vividly realized figures: the brutish lout Jonas Chuzzlewit, plotting to 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 Dickens's novel is a powerful and bla... (Lees verder)ckly comic story of hypocrisy and redemption.
Pagina's	841
Conditie	Goed — Name and date on first free endpaper.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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