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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Thanks ........I was wondering at his choice....and will never look at the word "bookworm" the same again.........  |
The "American parts" of Martin Chuzzlewit are widely regarded as Dickens "worst" work. He was very "anti-American" at the time he wrote it, due to the fact that there was no international copyright protection at the time, and American publishers were making a fortune out of his work, and he wasn't receiving a penny for it. His hostility towards America is very clear in "Chuzzlewit", in which he makes the country out to be little more than a nation of "confidence tricksters".