Category: Martin Chuzzlewit

December 20, 2011

The Inimitable is inexhaustible

So says biographer Robert Douglas-Fairhurst in this interview about the upcoming adaptations.
November 25, 2011

7 Quick Takes Friday

The Northampton Chronicle and Echo has a piece about Holdenby House, used for Satis House in…
October 7, 2011

America, with all thy faults I love thee still

I've made it to chapter 16 of Martin Chuzzlewit, with Martin and Mark arriving in America.…
September 6, 2011

Dickens in the ‘New Yorker’

You would not believe how hard it is to find a copy of the New Yorker…
August 28, 2011

‘Martin Chuzzlewit’: a progress report

I'm only in chapter five, as a consequence of my usual practice of trying to read…
July 24, 2011

Speaking of ‘Martin Chuzzlewit’ . . .

I just came across this lovely passage from G. K. Chesterton's introduction to it: We go…
July 23, 2011

And it begins

"As no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathise with the…
April 15, 2011

7 Quick Takes Friday

Lee Jackson of the blog The Cat's Meat Shop has a short piece by Dickens's son…
January 24, 2011

You guys! Another adaptation!

But it's still not David Copperfield. (I'm so sorry, Nina.) It's Edwin Drood, and it's going…
January 1, 2011

Dickensian resolution

Writer Daniel Arizona blogged at The Economist, "Find me someone who claims to have read 'Martin…