Martin Chuzzlewit

The Tory wing of English novelists (Evelyn Waugh, Kingsley Amis) has tended to portray characters born on this side of the Atlantic as bumptious and grasping, as Dickens did in "Martin Chuzzlewit"; the political left (Graham Greene, John le Carr é ) has often made Americans either dangerously idealistic or dangerously cynical.

They Never Got Over Yorktown Richard B. Woodward 2011

The hero of Charles Dickens's novel "Martin Chuzzlewit," just off the Liverpool steamer and landed at the port of New York, knows virtually nothing about America, but he learns a little something about it when he attends his first boarding-house dinner.

Why We're All Above Average Sam Schulman 2011

Dickens could make even his minor characters unforgettable, like the man in "Martin Chuzzlewit" who was "so bald and had such big whiskers that he seemed to have stopped his hair, by the sudden application of some powerful remedy, in the very act of falling off his head."

'The Inimitable' 2008

"Martin Chuzzlewit," which is good, though already a young girl of seventeen has been introduced, very beautiful and all the rest, and I'm afraid she won't be poisoned, but marry a certain young man already introduced.

Letters to His Friends Forbes Robinson

"Martin Chuzzlewit" is not a name suggestive of long and serious deliberation: one might rather suppose that it had turned up accidentally and been accepted simply as being as good as another.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

At Cairo, I was also greeted with great enthusiasm, and I was interested to find that there was still extreme bitterness felt over Dickens's description of the town and the people in "Martin Chuzzlewit" sixty-five years ago.

Changes of Three Centuries 1919

If any man feels too gloomy about the degeneracy of our people from the standards of their forefathers, let him read "Martin Chuzzlewit"; it will be consoling.

IX. Books for Holidays in the Open 1916

"Martin Chuzzlewit;" nevertheless, Crailey still boldly hailed him (as everyone had heretofore agreed) the most dexterous writer of his day and the most notable humorist of any day.

The Two Vanrevels Booth Tarkington 1907

Mr. Dickens might have been far from a clear understanding of our people; but didn't it argue a pretty ticklish vanity in ourselves that we were so fiercely resentful of satire; and was not this very heat over "Martin Chuzzlewit" a confirmation of one of the points the book had presented against us?

The Two Vanrevels Booth Tarkington 1907

Thus, to take "Martin Chuzzlewit" alone, I should call the joke about the Lord No-zoo a simple joke: but I should call the joke about Mrs. Todgers's vision of a wooden leg a subtle joke.

Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays 1905