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Download or read book Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit written by Charles Dickens and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?” All The Pecksniff Family Upon Earth Are Quite Agreed, I Believe, That Mr Pecksniff Is An Exaggeration, And That No Such Character Ever Existed. I Will Not Offer Any Plea On His Behalf To So Powerful And Genteel A Body, But Will Make A Remark On The Character Of Jonas Chuzzlewit. I Conceive That The Sordid Coarseness And Brutality Of Jonas Would Be Unnatural, If There Had Been Nothing In His Early Education, And In The Precept And Example Always Before Him, To Engender And Develop The Vices That Make Him Odious. But, So Born And So Bred, Admired For That Which Made Him Hateful, And Justified From His Cradle In Cunning, Treachery, And Avarice; I Claim Him As The Legitimate Issue Of The Father Upon Whom Those Vices Are Seen To Recoil. And I Submit That Their Recoil Upon That Old Man, In His Unhonoured Age, Is Not A Mere Piece Of Poetical Justice, But Is The Extreme Exposition Of A Direct Truth. I Make This Comment, And Solicit The Reader’s Attention To It In His Or Her Consideration Of This Tale, Because Nothing Is More Common In Real Life Than A Want Of Profitable Reflection On The Causes Of Many Vices And Crimes That Awaken The General Horror. What Is Substantially True Of Families In This Respect, Is True Of A Whole Commonwealth. As We Sow, We Reap. Let The Reader Go Into The Children’s Side Of Any Prison In England, Or, I Grieve To Add, Of Many Workhouses, And Judge Whether Those Are Monsters Who Disgrace Our Streets, People Our Hulks And Penitentiaries, And Overcrowd Our Penal Colonies, Or Are Creatures Whom We Have Deliberately Suffered To Be Bred For Misery And Ruin. The American Portion Of This Story Is In No Other Respect A Caricature Than As It Is An Exhibition, For The Most Part (Mr Bevan Expected), Of A Ludicrous Side, Only, Of The American Character — Of That Side Which Was, Four-And-Twenty Years Ago, From Its Nature, The Most Obtrusive, And The Most Likely To Be Seen By Such Travellers As Young Martin And Mark Tapley. As I Had Never, In Writing Fiction, Had Any Disposition To Soften What Is Ridiculous Or Wrong At Home, So I Then Hoped That The Good-Humored People Of The United States Would Not Be Generally Disposed To Quarrel With Me For Carrying The Same Usage Abroad. I Am Happy To Believe That My Confidence In That Great Nation Was Not Misplaced. When This Book Was First Published, I Was Given To Understand, By Some Authorities, That The Watertoast Association And Eloquence Were Beyond All Bounds Of Belief. Therefore I Record The Fact That All That Portion Of Martin Chuzzlewit’s Experiences Is A Literal Paraphrase Of Some Reports Of Public Proceedings In The United States (Especially Of The Proceedings Of A Certain Brandywine Association), Which Were Printed In The Times Newspaper In June And July, 1843 — At About The Time When I Was Engaged In Writing Those Parts Of The Book; And Which Remain On The File Of The Times Newspaper, Of Course. In All My Writings, I Hope I Have Taken Every Available Opportunity Of Showing The Want Of Sanitary Improvements In The Neglected Dwellings Of The Poor. Mrs Sarah Gamp Was, Four-And-Twenty Years Ago, A Fair Representation Of The Hired Attendant On The Poor In Sickness. The Hospitals Of London Were, In Many Respects, Noble Institutions; In Others, Very Defective. I Think It Not The Least Among The Instances Of Their Mismanagement, That Mrs Betsey Prig Was A Fair Specimen Of A Hospital Nurse; And That The Hospitals, With Their Means And Funds, Should Have Left It To Private Humanity And Enterprise, To Enter On An Attempt To Improve That Class Of Persons — Since, Greatly Improved Through The Agency Of Good Women...FROM THE BOOKS.
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Download or read book THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT written by CHARLES DICKENS and published by PURE SNOW PUBLISHING. This book was released on with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT BY CHARLES DICKENS KEY FEATURES OF THIS BOOK · Includes an autobiographical sketch of the author · This book includes original artwork · Unabridged with 100% of it’s original content · Available in multiple formats: eBook, original paperback, and hardcover · Proper paragraph formatting with Indented first lines, 1.25 Line Spacing and Justified Paragraphs · Properly formatted for aesthetics and ease of reading. · Custom Table of Contents and Design elements for each chapter · The Copyright page has been placed at the end of the book, as to not impede the content and flow of the book. ABOUT THE BOOK: Original publication : 1843 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT is the 7th novel written by Charles Dickens. Dickens considered this work to be one of his best novels. It was originally published in a serialized format between 1842 and 1844. The novel is also notable for two of Dickens's great villains, Seth Pecksniff and Jonas Chuzzlewit. Dickens introduced the first private detective character in this novel. This book is great for schools, teachers and students or for the casual reader, and makes a wonderful addition to any classic literary library ABOUT US: At Pure Snow Publishing we have taken the time and care into formatting this book to make it the best possible reading experience. We specialize in publishing classic books and have been publishing books since 2014. We now have over 500 book listings available for purchase. Enjoy!
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Download or read book Martin Chuzzlewit written by Charles Dickens and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I plainly see to what foul uses all this money will be put ... sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love' Old Martin Chuzzlewit, in despair at a family more interested in his wealth than his wellbeing, drives out his grandson and namesake. While the younger Martin leaves to make his own way in the world, love of money drives the hypocritical Pecksniff into scheming his way closer to the older man, and compels Jonas Chuzzlewit to even darker deeds. Dickens thought Martin Chuzzlewit 'in a hundred points immeasurably the best of my stories'. A sinister, funny novel of greed, selfishness, blackmail and murder, it also sees Dickens's scathing moral sense make the voyage to America. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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