Martin ChuzzlewitConsidered the last of Dickens' picaresque novels, Martin Chuzzlewit was released to the public in monthly installments. Sales of the monthly parts were disappointing, so Dickens changed the plot to send the title character to America. This satirical twist portrays America as a near wilderness, with pockets of civilization populated by deceptive, self-promoting hucksters. |
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... kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is ALWAYS the writer who colours highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for colour is a little dull? On this head of exaggeration I have a positive experience ...
... kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is ALWAYS the writer who colours highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for colour is a little dull? On this head of exaggeration I have a positive experience ...
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... kind of property upon his favourites, the liberality and gratitude of the Norman were as remarkable as those virtues are usually found to be in great men when they give away what belongs to other people. Perhaps in this place the ...
... kind of property upon his favourites, the liberality and gratitude of the Norman were as remarkable as those virtues are usually found to be in great men when they give away what belongs to other people. Perhaps in this place the ...
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... kind of heraldic overtheleft, with some unknown noble and illustrious House? From documentary evidence, yet preserved in the family, the fact is clearly established that in the comparatively modern days of the Diggory Chuzzlewit before ...
... kind of heraldic overtheleft, with some unknown noble and illustrious House? From documentary evidence, yet preserved in the family, the fact is clearly established that in the comparatively modern days of the Diggory Chuzzlewit before ...
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... kind in Mr Pinch. I will go further and say, I am not quite sure that this was even ordinarily grateful in Mr Pinch.' 'But what can anyone expect from Mr Pinch!' cried Charity, with as strong and scornful an emphasis on the name as if ...
... kind in Mr Pinch. I will go further and say, I am not quite sure that this was even ordinarily grateful in Mr Pinch.' 'But what can anyone expect from Mr Pinch!' cried Charity, with as strong and scornful an emphasis on the name as if ...
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... kind of business, and have no talent for it, or indeed for anything else but odds and ends that are of no use or service to anybody.' He said this with so much earnestness, and in a tone so full of feeling, that his companion ...
... kind of business, and have no talent for it, or indeed for anything else but odds and ends that are of no use or service to anybody.' He said this with so much earnestness, and in a tone so full of feeling, that his companion ...
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