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Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844)

January 27, 2014 By Denton Dickens Fellowship staff

Selfishness, as typified by the young Martin Chuzzlewit, and hypocrisy, as typified by Mr Seth Pecksniff, who purports to be an architect, are among the themes of this work. Martin is chastened and humbled by his experiences in the USA, which Dickens portrays as a country full of vulgar, brash and boastful people. This work contains one of Dickens’s great creations: the often intoxicated Mrs Sairey Gamp, a midwife, sick nurse and layer-out of the dead.

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