02763cam a2200445 a 4500 15778231 OSt 20150408113953.0 111204r20091982enka b 000 0 eng d 2009291580 9780199554003 (pbk.) (OCoLC)ocn294885624 BTCTA BTCTA YDXCP SGB DLC lccopycat e-uk-en n-us--- PR4563.A2 C37 2009 823.8 D C M 22 Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Martin Chuzzlewit / Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Margaret Cardwell. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. xxviii, 736 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Oxford world's classics Uses the Clarendon text and includes Dickens's Prefaces and 1868 Postscript, as well as eight of the original illustrations -- P. 4 of cover Includes bibliographical references (p. [727]-736). At the center of Martin Chuzzlewit is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he suspects (with good reason) is that every one of his close and distant relations, now converging in droves on the country inn where they believe he is dying, will stop at nothing to become the inheritor of his great fortune. Having unjustly disinherited his grandson, young Martin, the old fellow now trusts no one but Mary Graham, the pretty girl hired as his companion. Though she has been made to understand she will not inherit a penny, she remains old Chuzzlewit's only ally. As the viperish relations and hangers-on close in on him, we meet some of Dickens's most marvelous characters - among them Mr. Pecksniff (whose name has entered the language as a synonym for ultimate hypocrisy and self-importance): the fabulously evil Jonas Chuzzlewit: the strutting reptile Tigg Montague: and the ridiculous, terrible, comical Sairey Gamp. British United States Fiction. 7113 Grandfathers Fiction. 7114 Young men Fiction. 6940 Avarice Fiction. 6831 United States Description and travel Fiction. 7115 England Fiction. Black humor (Literature) gsafd 7116 Adventure stories. gsafd 7117 Bildungsromans. gsafd 6941 Cardwell, Margaret. 7118 Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) 6792 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc DVD 19215 253715 0 2013-03-10 0 0 823.8 D C M 2011-12-04 IC 00101100 IC 2013-03-10 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0 0 2013-03-10 0 0 823.8 D C M 2011-12-04 IC 00101101 IC 2013-03-10 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0