“Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing
satire on mid-nineteenth-century America. Martin Chuzzlewit is the
story of two Chuzzlewits, Martin and Jonas, who have inherited the
characteristic Chuzzlewit selfishness. It contrasts their diverse fates: moral
redemption and worldly success for one and increasingly desperate crime for the
other. In her Introduction to this new edition, Patricia Ingham discusses how,
in writing a story that was meant only to recommend "goodness and innocence",
Dickens succeeded in exploring "the intertwining of moral sensibility and
brutality".
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