Martin Chuzzlewit
Автор:
Charles DickensЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2025-01-25Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
331
Description
Old Martin Chuzzlewit is a wealthy old man beset with health problems, who sees everyone around him—family, friends, and strangers—as after his money. He has isolated himself from society, keeping with him only a young woman, Mary, whom he raised as an orphan. He has told her she will inherit nothing from him, to ensure that her service is purely for service’s sake.
Young Martin Chuzzlewit, for whom the novel is named, is the elder’s grandson. He loves his grandfather and is beloved by him, until young Martin and Mary fell in love with one another. Old Martin promptly disowns young Martin, and throws him out. Young Martin then signs on as an apprentice to a local architect, and there meets Tom Pinch, a former student who is now the...
