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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... the privacy daily enforced upon me by the nature of my avocation here and the state of my health. This testimony, so long as I live, and so long as my descendants have any legal right in my books, I shall POSTSCRIPT ...
... the privacy daily enforced upon me by the nature of my avocation here and the state of my health. This testimony, so long as I live, and so long as my descendants have any legal right in my books, I shall POSTSCRIPT ...
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... lives of their unconscious inheritors. It is a notable circumstance that in these later times, many Chuzzlewits, being unsuccessful in other pursuits, have, without the smallest rational hope of enriching themselves, or any conceivable ...
... lives of their unconscious inheritors. It is a notable circumstance that in these later times, many Chuzzlewits, being unsuccessful in other pursuits, have, without the smallest rational hope of enriching themselves, or any conceivable ...
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... live again. The wet grass sparkled in the light; the scanty patches of verdure in the hedgeswhere a few green twigs yet stood together bravely, resisting to the last the tyranny of nipping winds and early froststook heart and brightened ...
... live again. The wet grass sparkled in the light; the scanty patches of verdure in the hedgeswhere a few green twigs yet stood together bravely, resisting to the last the tyranny of nipping winds and early froststook heart and brightened ...
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... live to be a gentleman. Not he, Tom!' 'No,' said Tom, looking into his friend's face, as if he were a little doubtful of his meaning. 'Of course not.' 'So I say,' returned the youth, 'of course he never did. HE didn't take less than he ...
... live to be a gentleman. Not he, Tom!' 'No,' said Tom, looking into his friend's face, as if he were a little doubtful of his meaning. 'Of course not.' 'So I say,' returned the youth, 'of course he never did. HE didn't take less than he ...
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... live I make her an annual allowance; not extravagant in its amount and yet not stinted. There is a compact between us that no term of affectionate cajolery shall ever be addressed by either to the other, but that she shall call me ...
... live I make her an annual allowance; not extravagant in its amount and yet not stinted. There is a compact between us that no term of affectionate cajolery shall ever be addressed by either to the other, but that she shall call me ...
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