Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

LibriVox recording of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens. Read in English by Peter John Keeble Martin Chuzzlewit was Dickens 6th novel, serially published in 1843 - 44. Irrespective of the fact that Dickens considered - "Chuzzlewit is in 100 points immeasurably the best of my stories"- it failed to resonate with, or capture the public's imagination as many of its predecessors had done. However by the1850s its popularity had risen and it eventually found recognition as the great novel that it is. The beginning is somewhat protracted but the prose is magnificent throughout. The theme of the st