Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens audiobook

Martin Chuzzlewit

By Charles Dickens
Read by Frederick Davidson

Blackstone Publishing

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 3 Formats: CD
  • 3 Formats: Library CD
  • 3 Formats: MP3 CD

  • ISBN: 9781470824822

  • ISBN: 9781470814410

  • ISBN: 9781433254024

Runtime: 35.61 Hours
Category: Fiction/Classics
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

Wealthy and old, Martin Chuzzlewit Sr. is surrounded by greedy relatives hoping to obtain a portion of his estate upon his death. His two descendants, Martin Jr. and Jonas, have been born and bred in the same heritage of selfishness, the Chuzzlewit tradition.

Set partly in America, of which Dickens offers a searing satire, this novel follows and contrasts the opposing fates of Martin and Jonas. While one achieves worldly success and, eventually, moral redemption, the other sinks deeper into the darkness—and pays the ultimate price.

This powerful black comedy is a tale of hypocrisy, greed, and blackmail, and it introduces the most famous of Dickens' grotesques: Mrs. Gamp.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Davidson quickly tunes into Dickens’ ferocious irony, but his paramount strength is his uncanny ability to find and maintain the perfect voice for each of the vintage characters: drippy, insinuous, vicious, sly, bold American backwoods, or London Cheapside. Each is a distinct creation! Dickens lovers will treasure [this] masterpiece. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” —AudioFile
“Davidson’s fully voiced reading is marvelous and adds a great deal to the as-if-spoken prose style in which it is written.”  —Kliatt
“British reader Frederick Davidson makes the perfect hilarious distinctions among [characters] by shades of intonation and phraseology.”  —Library Journal
“In the development of the brilliantly drawn Jonas Chuzzlewit…that would have done credit to Dostoevsky, Dickens adds a whole dimension to the book.”  —Angus Wilson, English playwright and New York Times bestselling author
“Dickens’ funniest novel.” —William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart
“Black, anarchic laughter, his lurid fantasies, his zest for hypocrisy, violence, and murder, [and] his surreal world of animated objects, are at the core of Dickens’creative being.”  —John Carey, editor of Eyewitness to History

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Author

Author Bio: Charles Dickens

Author Bio: Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was born in Landport, Portsmouth, England, the second of eight children in a family continually plagued by debt. A legacy brought release from the nightmare of debtors’ prison and child labor and afforded him a few years of formal schooling. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his early writings brought him the amazing success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. He was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature’s most iconic characters.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction/Classics
Runtime: 35.61
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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