Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens's powerful black comedy of of hypocrisy and greedThe 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. In depicting Martin's journey - an e… Celý popis ↓
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Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens's powerful black comedy of of hypocrisy and greedThe 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. 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. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seek his fortune in America.
With its portrayal of greed, blackmail and murder, and its searing satire on America Dickens's novel is a powerful and blackly comic story of hypocrisy and
Parametre
- Výrobca
- Penguin
- Autor
- Charles Dickens
- Počet strán
- 829
- Jazyk
- anglické
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