Greed and hypocrisy swirl around old Martin Chuzzlewit while his disinherited grandson learns the cost of selfishness on both sides of the Atlantic.
Books mentioned in Martin Chuzzlewit (2)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: “where children's books were sold, and where poor Robinson Crusoe stood alone in his might, with dog and hatchet, goat-skin cap and fowling-pieces;”
A Thousand and One Nights: “and there the mighty talisman, the rare Arabian Nights, with Cassim Baba, divided by four, like the ghost of a dreadful sum, hanging up, all gory, in the robbers' cave.”
Books that mention Martin Chuzzlewit (3)
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwein: “cried aloud, "Behold the moral Pecksniff!" --CHARLES DICKENS, _Martin Chuzzlewit_.”
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin: “alluding to the irrepressible servant in Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit who sought out all manner of obstacles to surmount and miseries to transcend, and yet maintained a joyful aplomb.”
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami: ““The text was Martin Chuzzlewit. I was eighteen and wearing a cute pleated dress.”