num_pages: 828
description: Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century America. Martin Chuzzlewit is the story of two Chuzzlewits, Martin and Jonas, who have inherited the characteristic Chuzzlewit selfishness. It contrasts their diverse fates: moral redemption and worldly success for one and increasingly desperate crime for the other. In her Introduction to this new edition, Patricia Ingham discusses how, in writing a story that was meant only to recommend "goodness and innocence", Dickens succeeded in exploring "the intertwining of moral sensibility and brutality".
language: English
title: Martin Chuzzlewit
titlecomplete: Martin Chuzzlewit
characters: Mrs. Sarah Gamp, Mr. Pecksniff, Martin Chuzzlewit
genres: Literature, Classics, Novels, Classic Literature, English Literature, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 16100
publisher: Bt Bound