TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dickens,Charles
AU  - Cardwell,Margaret
TI  - Martin Chuzzlewit
T2  - Oxford world's classics
SN  - 9780199554003 (pbk.)
AV  - PR4563.A2 C37 2009
U1  - 823/.8 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - British
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Sears
KW  - Grandfathers
KW  - Young men
KW  - Avarice
KW  - United States
KW  - Description
KW  - England
KW  - Black humor (Literature)
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Adventure stories
KW  - Bildungsromans
N1  - 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)
N2  - 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
ER  -