The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (Electronic book text)

While writing "Martin Chuzzlewit" - his sixth novel - Dickens declared it 'immeasurably the best of my stories.' He was already famous as the author of "The Pickwick Papers" and "Oliver Twist". Set partly in America, which Dickens had visited in 1842, the novel includes a searing satire on the United States. "Martin Chuzzlewit" is the story of two Chuzzlewits, Martin and Jonas, who have inherited the characteristic Chuzzlewit selfishness. It contrasts their diverse fates of moral redemption and worldly success for one, with increasingly desperate crime for the other. This powerful black comedy involves hypocrisy, and greed and blackmail.