Martin Chuzzlewit (Oxford World's Classics)
Contributors: Margaret Cardwell (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 11, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 766
ISBN-13: 9780192834614
First sentence: AS no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathize with the Chuzzlewit Family without being first assured of the extreme antiquity of the race, it is a great satisfaction to know that it undoubtedly descended in a direct line from Adam and Eve; and was, in the very earliest times, closely connected with the agricultural interest.