Martin Chuzzlewit was Dickens’s sixth novel. It was first published in installments that began in January of 1843 and ran through July of 1844. The overriding theme of Martin Chuzzlewit is selfishness, selfishness of all types.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised in 1843 and 1844. The main theme of the novel is selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1887) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented popularity, and by the twentieth century he was widely seen as a literary genius by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.