02260cam a2200409 a 4500 15778231 Nust 20220829163319.0 090616r20091982enka b 000 0 eng d 2009291580 978-0710517456 (pbk.) 0710517459 (OCoLC)ocn294885624 BTCTA BTCTA YDXCP SGB DLC lccopycat e-uk-en n-us--- PR4563.A2 C37 2009 823 DIC Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. 12180 Martin Chuzzlewit / Charles Dickens ; Priory Book; UK : Peter Haddock, 2009. 233 p. : 20 cm. Oxford world's classics 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. 98640 Grandfathers Fiction. 98609 Young men Fiction. 12184 Avarice Fiction. 98641 United States Description and travel Fiction. 98642 England Fiction. 1072 Black humor (Literature) gsafd 98643 Adventure stories. gsafd Bildungsromans. gsafd 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 174615 174615 0 0 ddc 0 0 CL CL FIC 2017-02-03 823 DIC CL685 2026-02-12 1 2017-02-03 BK