Martin Chuzzlewit - (Everyman's Library Classics) by Charles Dickens (Hardcover)

Martin Chuzzlewit is a dramatic serial on Masterpiece Theatre, a PBS television series presented by WGBH-TV, Boston, made possible by a grant from Mobil Corporation.

This novel has it all! A rich old man, suspicious of his relations, and rightfully so.

With a grandson disinherited, he trusts no one but Mary Graham, the pretty girl hired as his companion.

As viperish relations and hangers-on close in on him, we meet some of Dickens's most marvelous characters - among them Mr.

Pecksniff (whose name has entered the language as a synonym for ultimate hypocrisy and self-importance).

The action moves between Britain and United States in ways which highlight the failing of both societies.

This is a must read!