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Martin Chuzzlewit

by Charles Dickens

First Published

1994

Subjects

Social life and customs

Literature

Description and travel

Travel

British

Fiction

Avarice

Grandfathers

English

Young men

Classic Literature

British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)

England, fiction

United states, history, 19th century

Great britain, history, 19th century

Great britain, history, juvenile literature

United states, history, juvenile literature

Travelers

Family relationships

Caregivers

Architects

Hypocrisy

Swindlers and swindling

History

English literature

Fiction, humorous, general

Fiction, classics

Fiction, general

Inheritance and succession

United states, fiction

Fiction, action & adventure

Grandparents, fiction

Children's fiction

Description

The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seek his fortune in America. In depicting Martin's journey – an experience that teaches him to question his inherited self-interest and egotism – Dickens created many vividly realized figures: the brutish lout Jonas Chuzzlewit, plotting to gain the family fortune; Martin's optimistic manservant, Mark Tapley; gentle Tom Pinch; and the drunken and corrupt private nurse, Mrs Gamp. With its portrayal of greed, blackmail and murder, and its searing satire on America Dickens's novel is a powerful and blackly comic story of hypocrisy and redemption.

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