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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... seemed to 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 ...
... seemed to 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 ...
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... seemed to say, on the part of Mr Pecksniff, 'There is no deception, ladies and gentlemen, all is peace, a holy calm pervades me.' So did his hair, just grizzled with an irongrey which was all brushed off his forehead, and stood bolt ...
... seemed to say, on the part of Mr Pecksniff, 'There is no deception, ladies and gentlemen, all is peace, a holy calm pervades me.' So did his hair, just grizzled with an irongrey which was all brushed off his forehead, and stood bolt ...
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... seemed to have been casting about for a new moral, and not quite successfully, 'which is also very soothing. Mercy, my dear, stir the fire and throw up the cinders.' The young lady obeyed, and having done so, resumed her stool, reposed ...
... seemed to have been casting about for a new moral, and not quite successfully, 'which is also very soothing. Mercy, my dear, stir the fire and throw up the cinders.' The young lady obeyed, and having done so, resumed her stool, reposed ...
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... seemed to be in part occasioned by the matter of his companion's speech, and in part by his rapid and vehement manner. Now that he had come to a close, he drew a very long breath; and gazing wistfully in his face as if he were unable to ...
... seemed to be in part occasioned by the matter of his companion's speech, and in part by his rapid and vehement manner. Now that he had come to a close, he drew a very long breath; and gazing wistfully in his face as if he were unable to ...
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... seemed, from an instinctive consciousness that he desired to avoid observation; and partly that she might, unseen by him, give some vent to the natural feelings she had hitherto suppressed. Of all this, and much more, the rosy landlady ...
... seemed, from an instinctive consciousness that he desired to avoid observation; and partly that she might, unseen by him, give some vent to the natural feelings she had hitherto suppressed. Of all this, and much more, the rosy landlady ...
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