Martin Chuzzlewit

Set partly in the United States this novel includes a searing satire on midnineteenthcentury America. <strong>Martin Chuzzlewit</strong> is the story of two Chu... » 

Set partly in the United States this novel includes a searing satire on midnineteenthcentury America. Martin Chuzzlewit is the story of two ChuzzlewitsMartin and Jonas who have inherited the characteristic Chuzzlewit selfishness.It contrasts their diverse fates moral redemption and worldly success for oneand increasingly desperate crime for the other. In her Introduction to this newedition Patricia Ingham discusses how in writing a story that was meant onlyto recommend goodness and innocence Dickens succeeded in exploring theintertwining of moral sensibility and brutality. «