Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, Vol. 1 of 2 Blackwood, the bookseller, to recast the upwinding of the plot of The Black Dwarf. The bookseller not only objected to the text as it stood, but, on the advice of some nameless lit erary person, on whose taste he placed great reliance, suggested an outline of a better conclusion to, the story, and Offered to bear the expense of cancelling the printed sheets if his proposal was adopted. The blood of Scott literally boiled in his veins. Dear James, he wrote to Ballantyne, I have received Blackwood's impudent letter. G. (1. His 8. Tell him and his coadjutor that I belong to the Black Hussars of Literature, who neither give nor receive criticism. I'll be cursed but this is the most impudent proposal that ever was made. The unaccustomed profanity of Scott in this missive only shows how fierce was his momentary resentment of the suggestion, that the bookseller and the bookseller' s literary man should presume to sit in judgment on any product of his genius. The rage of Dickens, though the circumstances were not the same, was identical in spirit with that of Scott. The hint of Mr. Hall that the firm might think it prudent to enforce a clause the necessity of which was never anticipated in the original agreement, wounded him to the quick. His consciousness of inward power, far exceeding that by which he had achieved his previous triumphs, was touched in its most sensitive nerve. He knew that he was doing some thing better than he had formerly done; he was correspondingly irritated at the suggestion that his popularity was decreasing in the same ratio in which he felt his genius was increasing; and naturally suspected that his publishers were busied with the apprehension that - to vary Macaulay's words regarding Godol phin, when that horse-racing statesman feared a counter revolu 'tion - they had bet too high on Dickens, and that it was high time for them to hedge. Dickens's wrath at this insult to his personal pride, and to his pride as an author, mildly insinu ated as it was, became ungovernable; for though personally the most genial and jovial of men among his companions, though never presuming to condescend to anybody, and receiving every body he met, whether lord or litte'rateur, on one level of equality, he had a morbidly quick sense of personal dignity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, Vol. 1 of 2: And American Notes After proposing to make an arrangement with bmw and Evans as his future publishers, he declares that he is bent upon paying Chapman and Hall down. And when, he Adda, I have done that, Mr. Hall Shall have a piece of my mind. Guided by the cooler judgment of Forster, Dickens did not come to an immediate rupture with Chapman and Hall; and the nego tiations with Bradbury and Evans resulted for the time in A disagreement, which Dickens was not in a mood to compromise, for he would not yield to their suggestion as to the expediency of republishing, in a cheap form, the works which had already made him famous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Martin Chuzzlewit, Vol. 2: American Notes; With Introduction, Critical Comments, Argument, Notes, Etc IT was mid-day, and high water in the English port for which the Screw was bound, when, borne in gallantly upon the fulness of the tide, she let go her anchor m the river. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, Vol. 2 of 2 Poll had a very small, shrill, treble voice, which might have led the wags of Kingsgate Street to insist the. More upon his feminine designation. He had a tender heart, too for, when he had a good commission to provide three or four score sparrows for a shooting-match, he would observe, in a compassionate tone, how singular it was that sparrows should have been made expressly for such purposes. The question, whether men were made to shoot them, never entered into Poll's philosophy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit Hat 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 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.