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Martin Chuzzlewit

Name: Martin Chuzzlewit
Author: Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens · Public domain text

336,628 words · about 23 h 34 min to read

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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised between January 1843 and July 1844. While he was writing it, Dickens told a friend that he thought it was his best work thus far, but it was one of his least popular novels, judged by sales of the monthly instalments. Characters in this novel gained fame, including Pecksniff and Mrs Gamp.

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Author: Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
Language: English
Subjects: Satire, England › Fiction, Bildungsromans, Young men › Fiction, Grandfathers › Fiction, Adventure stories
Length: 336,628 words · about 23 h 34 min
Sections: 57 reader sections · Table of contents
Audiobook: Listen free (LibriVox)
Source: Project Gutenberg #968

Contents (57)

Opening under 1 min
Preface about 3 min
Postscript about 3 min
Chapter One about 10 min
Chapter Two about 31 min
Chapter Three about 32 min
Chapter Four about 35 min
Chapter Five about 39 min
Chapter Six about 26 min
Chapter Seven about 28 min
Chapter Eight about 19 min
Chapter Nine about 46 min
Chapter Ten about 26 min
Chapter Eleven about 36 min
Chapter Twelve about 36 min
Chapter Thirteen about 37 min
Chapter Fourteen about 20 min
Chapter Fifteen about 16 min
Chapter Sixteen about 37 min
Chapter Seventeen about 33 min
Chapter Eighteen about 20 min
Chapter Nineteen about 28 min
Chapter Twenty about 24 min
Chapter Twenty-One about 36 min
Chapter Twenty-Two about 17 min
Chapter Twenty-Three about 17 min
Chapter Twenty-Four about 29 min
Chapter Twenty-Five about 28 min
Chapter Twenty-Six about 15 min
Chapter Twenty-Seven about 37 min
Chapter Twenty-Eight about 18 min
Chapter Twenty-Nine about 17 min
Chapter Thirty about 28 min
Chapter Thirty-One about 33 min
Chapter Thirty-Two about 11 min
Chapter Thirty-Three about 30 min
Chapter Thirty-Four about 27 min
Chapter Thirty-Five about 12 min
Chapter Thirty-Six about 37 min
Chapter Thirty-Seven about 17 min
Chapter Thirty-Eight about 17 min
Chapter Thirty-Nine about 32 min
Chapter Forty about 26 min
Chapter Forty-One about 16 min
Chapter Forty-Two about 18 min
Chapter Forty-Three about 38 min
Chapter Forty-Four about 16 min
Chapter Forty-Five about 17 min
Chapter Forty-Six about 40 min
Chapter Forty-Seven about 17 min
Chapter Forty-Eight about 30 min
Chapter Forty-Nine about 24 min
Chapter Fifty about 19 min
Chapter Fifty-One about 39 min
Chapter Fifty-Two about 34 min
Chapter Fifty-Three about 17 min
Chapter Fifty-Four about 20 min

The opening of Preface

What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is ALWAYS the writer who colours highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for colour is a little dull?
On this head of exaggeration I have a positive experience, more curious than the speculation I have just set down. It is this: I have never touched a character precisely from the life, but some counterpart of that character has incredulously asked me: “Now really, did I ever really, see one like it?”

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