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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.
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Classical in form, prestige, meticulous and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Charles Dickens
- First published
- December 1994
- Pages
- 764
- Publisher
- IndyPublish.com, C. T. Dillingham, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 290
- Language
- hun, Dutch, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780461936964
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“AS no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathize 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.”
Charles Dickens, was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most iconic characters, with the theme of social reform running throughout his work. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
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