The Life & Adventures of Martin Chizzlewit by Charles Dickens, c.1910.Bound in an elegant blue cloth hardback cover with gold gilt detail to the spine.The main theme of the novel, according to Dickens's preface, is selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. The novel is also notable for two of Dickens's great villains, Seth Pecksniff and Jonas Chuzzlewit.