Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit (unabridged)
Read by Sean Barrett
Dickens regarded this study in selfishness and obstinacy as his best novel, but the creaky and long-drawn-out beginning in which everybody seems on the make or gullible ended up losing it many... — The Times More…
- Release Date: 29th Mar 2010
- Catalogue No: NAX98312
- Label: Naxos AudioBooks
- Series: Classic Fiction, Complete Classics
- Length: 33 hours 30 minutes
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Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit (Unabridged)
- Recording Venue: The Square Recording Studio, Codicote, Hertfordshire
Chapter 1
These remarkable words wrought…
On another occasion, he says…
Chapter 2
It was small tyranny for a respectable wind…
Miss Pecksniff sat upon a stool…
'Even the worldly goods…'
'Now I think,' said Mr. Pecksniff…
'As to your forgiveness, Mr. Pecksniff…'
'Besides, whether I am or no,' he added…
Chapter 3
That her guest had need of some efficient…
And, at length, she said, in a voice too low…
'Come,' he said, 'Tell me, who is it?'
'Shall I knock?' asked Mrs. Lupin…
A long pause succeeded…
Mr. Pecksniff shook his head…
Mr. Pecksniff as slowly rose…
Chapter 4
'Now, this is very distressing…'
'Now, I'll tell you what it is…'
Mr. Tigg, planting his legs as wide apart…
If ever Mr. Pecksniff wore an apostolic look…
'I am not sorry,' said Mr. Pecksniff…
In their strong feeling on this point…
'I passed from the memory…'
Chapter 5
And now the morning grew so fair…
'I never,' Mark replied…
But the shops. First of all…
All the farmers being by this time jogging…
They looked at each other…
'But she is gone now…'
'This,' said Mr. Pecksniff, opening the door…
It was undoubtedly true, and may be stated…
Chapter 6
'Let me see,' he said…
'I must have been born with a silver spoon…'
Some men would have slapped him…
Mr. Pinch sat staring at the fire…
Chapter 7
'There is actually, at this instant…'
'You're not answering my question, you know…'
Mr. Tigg replenished his friend's glass…
'Sir, you have seen my friend, Slyme?'
At length, the house was closed…
Chapter 8
'Are you travelling to London, Mr. Pecksniff?'
As nothing could be added to this…
Mr. Pecksniff and his fair daughters…
Chapter 9
As to Todgers's itself…
'You, my dears, having to deal…'
'Visitors for Miss Pinch!' said the footman…
'Missis's compliments to Miss Pinch…'
Todgers's was in a great bustle that evening…
Here the gentlemen were all assembled…
Now comes the trying time…
Mr. Pecksniff had followed his younger…
Mrs. Todgers looked a little puzzled…
Chapter 10
'I very much regret,' Martin resumed…
'We uttered no complaint…'
'If I could have anticipated…'
'One glass of wine - one morsel of this homely cake?'
'However,' he said, 'these are not proper…'
Chapter 11
'Ah, cousin!' he said…
When they had been out for some hours…
Such as he was, he came slowly creeping…
Chuffey boggled over his plate so long…
By the time he had unfolded all the peddling…
The flute of the youngest gentleman…
Mr. Pecksniff and Mr. Jinkins came home…
Chapter 12
'It's a proof of the kindness…'
Better than the gig!
They drank his health in his absence…
'And so,' he said, when he had gazed…
They breakfasted together very early…
'Now, Mr. Pecksniff,' said Martin at last…
Chapter 13
He had repeated this process…
Martin said nothing in reply…
'I wish I may die,' said Mr. Tigg…
His first step, now that he had a supply…
The five weeks had quite run out…
'Lord bless you, sir,' said Mark…
If this were meant as a second appeal…
Chapter 14
She hung more closely on his arm…
'"I shall not only enclose my letters to…"'
'Martin! If you would but sometimes…'
Chapter 15
Mark was so far right…
At night, when the cooking-fire was lighted…
Chapter 16
'You have brought, I see, sir,' he said…
They made their way as best they could…
The colonel was by this time…
The gentleman in the rocking-chair…
They encountered more weeds in the bar-room…
Pursuing his inquiries Martin found…
Now there had been at the dinner-table…
Chapter 17
It would not have been very difficult…
'Lord love you, sir,' he said…
Martin thought it rather strange…
Then all the Norrises pressed round…
He drew his arm through Martin's…
In twelve or fifteen hours…
Chapter 18
Mr. Jonas was so very much amazed…
Although he paused for a reply…
'It struck me that he was changed…'
Chapter 19
As she was by this time in a condition…
The conclusion of this affecting narrative…
Before it was possible that an answer…
He lay at night upon a mattress on the floor…
Mrs. Gamp had begun to make a suitable reply…
So through the narrow streets…
Chapter 20
A question of philosophy arises here…
'To tell you the truth, Mr. Jonas…'
'Oh my goodness me!' cried the arch girl…
Now whether Mr. Pecksniff had been listening…
Chapter 21
'I looks at him tolerable hard…'
Several other gentlemen had left their seats…
'Well!' he said, 'and you think…'
At the sounding of a dismal gong…
Each long black hair on his head…
But here, at a most opportune and happy time…
'Thus,' said the General, 'thus, my friends…'
Chapter 22
'You wouldn't be unpop'lar…'
'Mr. Chuzzlewit, I believe?'
Martin by degrees became so far awake…
Chapter 23
'But I was thinking - '
But many a man who would have stood…
Their own land was mere forest…
Chapter 24
'Pecksniff,' he said after a pause…
The old man gazed at him for a moment…
'And so, Mr. Pinch,' said Martin…
'Come!' cried Tom, 'I see that you…'
It must be acknowledged…
'I am told that he was at first supposed…'
Chapter 25
Mrs. Gamp made no response to Mr. Mould…
'And what's your news Mrs. Gamp?'
As she turned into the yard…
A young man - dark and not ill-looking…
Mrs. Gamp awoke, and sat up…
Chapter 26
Just as he was turning into Holborn…
Mr. Bailey spoke…
'Wishing you 'appiness and joy…'
Chapter 27
The secretary smiled again…
'The Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan…'
'Bullamy!' said Mr. Tigg…
The lunch was handsomely served…
'Mr. Montague,' said Jobling, 'allow me…'
'Not such an old hand, either…'
'Then,' said Tigg Montague, 'we grant annuities…'
Chapter 28
'You're tolerably comfortable, I hope?'
It was especially in his way and character…
He was so far recovered…
Chapter 29
'And here,' continued Mrs. Gamp…
The little barber having in his eager curiosity…
'Oh bless you, no!' said Mrs. Gamp…
Chapter 30
'Wasn't I made a convenience of?'
But how happened it…?
'I was saying, my dear sir, that I am afraid…'
The summer weather…
'If you force me by your superior strength…'
'As to our own share in the precious…'
Chapter 31
'I have dreaded sometimes,' Tom continued…
'But what is he…?'
He was in a curious frame of mind, Mr. Pecksniff…
Oh, late-remembered, much-forgotten…
Tom had meant to spare him…
There were several people, young and old…
Chapter 32
Towards this most unhappy Moddle…
Chapter 33
'How is it that you have come here?' asked the man…
Glancing from his work out at the door…
Mr. Chollop was a man of a roving disposition…
'Come out from under the blanket, sir,' said Mark…
It was long before he fixed the knowledge…
Often at night when Mark and Martin were alone…
Chapter 34
In course of time, however, Mr. Pogram…
The bell being rung for dinner at this moment…
As the general evening meal of the house…
A great bustle at the door…
When at last it became necessary…
When he and Martin met again…
Chapter 35
As Mr. Pecksniff passed…
When he had made a kind of dirt-pie…
Chapter 36
It was a charming evening.
The coachman was so earnest in his approval…
Tom stepped from the little passage…
Accordingly John Westlock took the French rolls…
His cogitations were interrupted…
'So just, sir,' said the gentleman…
It was not until they had walked…
Chapter 37
An uneasy thought entered Tom's head…
'Come, come!' said Tom…
When boarding-house accounts are balanced…
Chapter 38
Mr. Bailey, taking up his name without delay…
'Hallo!' said Jonas…
Chapter 39
'What are you writing, Tom?' inquired his sister…
'Why, my goodness, John! How did you come in?'
'But the strangest part of the story,' resumed John…
They occupied the two chairs, and Mr. Fips…
There were two rooms on that floor…
It is astonishing how much three people…
Chapter 40
Mr. Fips, of Austin Friars, rather deepened…
Even when they had left off…
Tom and his sister glanced at each other…
'There are so many people, and so much motion…'
Jonas maintained a dogged silence…
Chapter 41
'I wish you to venture (it's a very safe venture)…'
'He know!' cried Jonas.
Jonas not being in a condition to pursue…
Chapter 42
He uttered an involuntary exclamation…
The travellers had opened the carriage door…
As it was clear that he was not to be moved…
Chapter 43
When Mr. Tapley stopped in these calculations…
She was so positive that there was nothing for it…
'Well, but we know beforehand,' returned the politic Mr. Tapley…
He hurriedly advanced to seize…
'Upon that subject,' said Martin…
'Not a word?' said Martin, for the second time…
Martin looked with admiration on her glowing face…
Chapter 44
During this digression…
'I could have wished,' said Mr. Pecksniff…
It took so long to bring the subject to this…
Chapter 45
They found out Tom, though, quickly…
There are snug chambers in those Inns…
Ah, but it would have been a good thing…
Chapter 46
In furtherance of this bashful arrangement…
'Walk up, pray, Mr. Pinch,' said Miss Pecksniff…
With these words the worthy woman…
The old clerk, subsiding into his usual state…
As this excellent woman had been…
'You have no cause to be violent, sir…'
For the moment only…
Leaving Mrs. Gamp in the act…
Chapter 47
Before he could retort or turn away…
As the sunlight died away, and evening fell…
But here were London streets again…
Chapter 48
Mr. Tapley was the first to resume his composure…
He was very much delighted…
Mr. Tapley nodded assent…
As he did not move or speak…
He stopped once more, and was silent…
Besides, there was the great difficulty…
Chapter 49
'There! Now drat you, Betsey…'
At this juncture the little bell rang…
During this touching address, Mrs. Prig…
'I'm a-goin', ma'am, ain't I?' said Mrs. Prig…
'Never mind,' said John.
Chapter 50
'Tut, tut,' said Tom, stopping her…
'My dear,' said Tom, 'I will repay your affection…'
'No Mr. Fips's friend to-day, I suppose,' thought Tom…
Chapter 51
Well! Where was she?
Jonas looked out of the window again…
'I know that fellow,' he said…
And now he heard the voice of his accomplice…
Poor Chuffey paused to dry his eyes again…
'That is the man,' said Nadgett.
Oh, miserable, miserable fool!
'Now then,' he added, turning hastily to Jonas…
Chapter 52
It was clear that Mark expected to be ordered…
He was quickly summoned to the door…
'Hear me, rascal!' said Mr. Chuzzlewit…
Mr. Chuzzlewit resumed…
Mr. Pecksniff laid his hand upon his breast…
The whole of these proceedings were so agreeable…
'I ask your pardon, ladies and gentlemen…'
Chapter 53
She sat down on the little sofa…
He had hardly time to say thus much…
Young Martin sat at the head of the table…
Chapter 54
He shook his head in doubt…
Old Martin gave his arm to the younger sister…
The door was thrown open at this juncture…
They thought as little of Miss Pecksniff…
