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By Charles Dickens

The greed of his kinfolk has led prosperous previous Martin Chuzzle wit to develop into suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his personal approach on this planet. And so younger Martin units out from the Wiltshire domestic of his meant champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to hunt his fortune in the US. In depicting Martin's trip - an adventure that teaches him to query his inherited self-interest and egotism - Dickens created many vividly learned figures: the brutish lout Jonas Chuzzlewit, plotting to achieve the relations fortune; Martin's confident manservant, Mark Tapley; light Tom Pinch; and the drunken and corrupt inner most nurse, Mrs Gamp. With its portrayal of greed, blackmail and homicide, and its searing satire on the United States Dickens' novel is a strong and blackly shaggy dog story of hypocrisy and redemption.

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It was once said of him by a homely admirer, that he had a Fortunatus’s purse⁹ of good sentiments in his inside. In this particular he was like the girl in the fairy tale, except that if they were not actual diamonds which fell from his lips, they were the very brightest paste, and shone prodigiously. ¹⁰ Some people likened him to a direction-post, which is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there: but these were his enemies; the shadows cast by his brightness; that was all. His very throat was moral.

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Presently, the youngest Miss Pecksniff ran out again to pick up his hat, his brown paper parcel, his umbrella, his gloves, and other small articles: and that done, and the door closed, both young ladies applied themselves to tending Mr Pecksniff ’s wounds in the back parlour. They were not very serious in their nature: being limited to abrasions on what the eldest Miss Pecksniff called ‘the knobby parts’ of her parent’s anatomy, such as his knees and elbows, and to the development of an entirely new organ, unknown to phrenologists,⁶ on the back of his head.

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