The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

Dickens, Charles

Published by Chapman & Hall, London, 1844

624 pages; with 36 plates, of the listed 39. Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) English novelist, ".Martin Chuzzlewit was published in monthly parts from 31 December 1842 to 30 June 1844. Dickens thought it 'in a hundred points immeasurably the best of my stories' (Forster, 305), and declared that he felt his power more than ever before. And, indeed, this is the great transitional novel that leads from the dazzling farce and comedy of humours, the often powerfully effective melodrama and satirical episodes, the sometimes startling grotesquerie and the picaresque pleasures of the early fiction to the complex, resonant, carefully planned and structured masterpieces of Dickens's later years.There can be few other English writers-apart, of course, from Shakespeare-with such widespread influence as Dickens, not only on their successors in the national literature, but also on major foreign writers, and few have been the subject of so many outstanding treatises by foreign critics."(Michael Slater in the ODNB) Approx. 6" x 8 3/4" size; bound in marbled paper covered boards, polished brown calf corners and spine, with gilt ornamentation and title label. Some edge, tips wear to binding; illustrations spotted and darkened throughout; unsightly paper tear on one leaf with word losses; one illustration with old professional paper repair at lower margin; in about good condition. Seller Inventory # 029208

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Publisher: Chapman & Hall, London
Publication Date: 1844
Binding: Leather
Condition: Very Good