Martin Chuzzlewit
By: Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Margaret Cardwell.
Contributors: Cardwell, Margaret.
Series: Oxford world's classics; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9780199554003
Subjects: British -- United States -- Fiction; Grandfathers -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; Avarice -- Fiction; United States -- Description and travel -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: 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).