Martin Chuzzlewit

Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens comic masterpiece about which his biographer Forster noted that it marked a crucial phase in the authors development as he began to delve deeper into the springs of character Old Martin Chuzzlewit tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family effectively drives his grandson young Martin to undertake a voyage to America It is a voyage which will have crucial consequences not only for young Martin but also for his grandfather and his grandfathers servant Mary Graham with whom young Martin is in love The commercial swindle of the AngloBengalee company and the fraudulent Eden Land Corporation have a topicality in our own time