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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised between January 1843 and July 1844.
MAIN CHARACTERS. THE ELDER MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT: a bitter gentleman who thinks money is the root of all evil. MR. SETH PECKSNIFF: an architect who is admired for his virtue that runs a school that teaches gentlemen his trade, cousin to elder Martin Chuzzlewit.
Martin Chuzzlewit is the story of two Chuzzlewits, Martin and Jonas, who have inherited the characteristic Chuzzlewit selfishness. It contrasts their diverse fates of moral redemption and worldly success for one, with increasingly desperate crime for the other.
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Martin Chuzzlewit, novel by Charles Dickens, published serially under the pseudonym “Boz” from 1843 to 1844 and in book form in 1844. The story’s protagonist, Martin Chuzzlewit, is an apprentice architect who is fired by Seth Pecksniff and is also disinherited by his own eccentric, wealthy.
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Martin Chuzzlewit, though highly popular throughout the nineteenth century, is today regarded as something of an artistic failure because its central character is a mere cipher overshadowed by a legion of fascinating, quirky, minor characters.
Martin Chuzzlewit, one of Charles Dickens’ early novels, is the story of a wealthy, elderly gentleman who disowns the grandson he reared because the young man is in love with Mary, an orphan also raised by the grandfather.
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The young Martin Chuzzlewit tries to make his way in the world by becoming an apprentice to the villainous Mr. Pecksniff, a relative of his grandfather. Pecksniff is one of Dickens' great villains: he is talentless, full of himself, falsely pious.
