Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 creator Cardwell, Margaret. text bibliography Black humor (Literature) Adventure stories. Bildungsromans. enk Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2009 monographic eng

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xxviii, 736 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. 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. Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Margaret Cardwell. 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). e-uk-en n-us--- British United States Fiction Grandfathers Fiction Young men Fiction Avarice Fiction United States Description and travel Fiction England Fiction PR4563.A2 C37 2009 823.8 D C M 9780199554003 (pbk.) 2009291580 BTCTA 111204 20150408113953.0 15778231