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050 00 $aPR4563.A2$bC37 2009
082 00 $a823/.8$222
100 1 $aDickens, Charles,$d1812-1870.
245 10 $aMartin Chuzzlewit /$cCharles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Margaret Cardwell.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2009.
300 $axxviii, 736 p. :$bill. ;$c20 cm.
490 1 $aOxford world's classics
500 $aUses the Clarendon text and includes Dickens's Prefaces and 1868 Postscript, as well as eight of the original illustrations -- P. 4 of cover
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [727]-736).
520 $aAt 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.
651 0 $aUnited States$xDescription and travel$vFiction.
650 0 $aBritish$zUnited States$vFiction.
650 0 $aGrandfathers$vFiction.
650 0 $aYoung men$vFiction.
651 0 $aEngland$vFiction.
650 0 $aAvarice$vFiction.
655 7 $aBlack humor (Literature)$2gsafd
655 7 $aAdventure stories.$2gsafd
655 7 $aBildungsromans.$2gsafd
700 1 $aCardwell, Margaret.
830 0 $aOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)