书籍介绍
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 seed his fortune in America. In depicting Martin's Journey Dickens created many vividly realized figures: the brutish lout Jonas Chuzzlewit, plotting jto 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, Dicken's novel is a powerful and blackly comic story of hypocrisy and redemption.
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读到最后为什么有种Jane Austen的感觉 X DDD
终于读完了狄更斯所有长篇。狄更斯说《Martin Chuzzlewit》是“in a hundred points immeasurably the best of [his] stories”。这部跟《圣诞颂歌》同时期的小说，也探讨了人类的贪婪与自私，不知道狄更斯晚年何以变得如此阴暗。最让我惊讶的是，是狄更斯居然1844年就写出了“美国梦的幻灭”，太有前瞻性了吧。奈何结局生硬，我猜老瞿述伟之前都是装病！
4月下旬读物。读了6章，感觉语言比上一本难。读了一半，美国部分，槽点持续高能输出，eden鸟不拉屎的地方够可怜的了，男主从不太光辉的“自私自大”形象沦落成哭唧唧👶，也太逗了。这本书的朗读者好喜欢啊，叫frederick davidson。最近是不是收了女权影响，为啥从书里看到了作者的男性凝视，凭啥不给cherry一个结婚狂的好结尾？凭啥老头子要操纵考验mary的衷心隐忍。为啥女性只要有一点私心就是反面角色，像merry一样，女性非要经受苦难才能找到自我归属和价值么？还有歌颂tom这种不求回报的爱，是挺感人的，但在现在社会中，这却叫舔狗。唉！这本书大部分很幽默，美国部分，pecksniff，mark的塑造都是笑点。还有，我一个情感不如意的老阿姨再也受不了狄更斯小说里青年男女的酸臭恋爱了！