Edition details
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens. Introduction by Christopher Hibbert. Frontispiece and 54 small drawings by Charles Keeping. Quarter-bound in dark green cloth with a design in black and gold, patterned green paper covers. Green slipcase. 812pp. 24x16.3cm.
About the book
Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit follows several members of the Chuzzlewit family, whose relationships are shaped by greed, inheritance and self-interest. Young Martin travels to America in search of opportunity, while the hypocritical Seth Pecksniff becomes one of Dickens's great comic villains. The novel combines satire, moral growth and social criticism in a broad attack on selfishness and pretence. The Master of Ballantrae Robert Louis Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae is a dark historical novel about two Scottish brothers whose rivalry becomes increasingly destructive. James Durie, the charismatic Master of Ballantrae, repeatedly returns to disrupt the life of his more responsible brother Henry. The novel explores jealousy, family loyalty, obsession and the corrosive effects of hatred.
