Martin Chuzzlewit
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 864
ISBN-13: 9780140436143
First sentence: As no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathise 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.