Martin Chuzzlewit

Charles Dickens's great comic satire on selfishness and greed. A wealthy old man tests his scheming relatives, while his grandson seeks his fortune from England to the swamps of frontier America.

At a glance An old man with a fortune and no shortage of hungry heirs decides to see just how far… What it's about Old Martin Chuzzlewit, rich and suspicious, sets the greed of his… His grandson, the younger Martin, quarrels with him and sets out to make his own way, a… Around them Dickens assembles one of his richest casts, including the unforgettable…

Old Martin Chuzzlewit, rich and suspicious, sets the greed of his relatives against one another, with the oily hypocrite Seth Pecksniff foremost among the circling flatterers.