Charles Dickens's powerful black comedy of of hypocrisy and greed, Martin Chuzzlewit is edited with an introduction and notes by Patricia Ingham in Penguin Classics.
Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist
whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful
PICKWICK PAPERS (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public
imagination over a period of more than thirty years. Dickens is
considered one of the greatest novelists in the English
language.
Patricia Ingham is Fellow of St Anne's College, Reader in English,
and The Times Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford.
Martin Chuzzlewit is a dramatic serial on Masterpiece Theatre, a PBS television series presented by WGBH-TV, Boston, made possible by a grant from Mobil Corporation.
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