{"description": "The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seek his fortune in America. In depicting Martin's journey \u2013 an experience that teaches him to question his inherited self-interest and egotism \u2013 Dickens created many vividly realized figures: the brutish lout Jonas Chuzzlewit, plotting to gain the family fortune; Martin's optimistic manservant, Mark Tapley; gentle Tom Pinch; and the drunken and corrupt private nurse, Mrs Gamp. With its portrayal of greed, blackmail and murder, and its searing satire on America Dickens's novel is a powerful and blackly comic story of hypocrisy and redemption.", "title": "Martin Chuzzlewit", "covers": [13112817, 13678487], "subject_places": ["United States", "England"], "first_publish_date": "December 1994", "key": "/works/OL14869242W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL24638A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "subject_times": ["19th century"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Social life and customs", "Literature", "Description and travel", "Travel", "British", "Fiction", "Avarice", "Grandfathers", "English", "Young men", "Classic Literature", "British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)", "England, fiction", "United states, history, 19th century", "Great britain, history, 19th century", "Great britain, history, juvenile literature", "United states, history, juvenile literature", "Travelers", "Family relationships", "Caregivers", "Architects", "Hypocrisy", "Swindlers and swindling", "History", "English literature", "Fiction, humorous, general", "Fiction, classics", "Fiction, general", "Inheritance and succession", "United states, fiction", "Fiction, action & adventure", "Grandparents, fiction", "Children's fiction", "Long Now Manual for Civilization"], "latest_revision": 47, "revision": 47, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-08T00:52:02.382731"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-06-29T12:27:02.317077"}}