Mr. Nadgett is a private investigator hired by Tigg Montague to provide information on the customers of the Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Assurance Company. He is a short, dried-up, withered old man with shabby, threadbare clothes. ...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
A retired merchant, obsessed with the doctrine of facts. "Thomas Gradgrind, sir, a man of realities, a man of facts and calculations, a man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be...
Hard Times
A satire on Utilitarianism set in a provincial industrial town, portraying the dreariness of life for industrial workers, the hopelessness of decent people trapped in a failed marriage, and the fallacy of mechanical theories of human nature
Mr. Nadgett is a private investigator hired by Tigg Montague to provide information on the customers of the Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Assurance Company. He is a short, dried-up, withered old man with shabby, threadbare clothes. ...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
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