Bibliograph

Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Margaret Cardwell

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Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Margaret Cardwell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 727-736)

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illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Martin Chuzzlewit

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bibliography

Oclc number

294885624

Responsibility statement

Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Margaret Cardwell

Series statement

Oxford world's classics

Summary

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

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