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Martin Chuzzlewit / Charles Dickens ; with forty illustrations by "Phiz" ; introduced by William Boyd.
LIBRA PR4563.A2 C37 1994 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
- Series:
- Everyman's library ; no. 200.
- Everyman's library ; 200
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Description and travel--Fiction.
- United States.
- British--United States--Fiction.
- British.
- England.
- Grandfathers--Fiction.
- Grandfathers.
- Young men--Fiction.
- Young men.
- England--Fiction.
- Avarice--Fiction.
- Avarice.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Satirical literature.
- Black humor (Literature)
- Adventure fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xlvii, 851 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : A.A. Knopf, [1994]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page xxiii).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 067943884X
- 9780679438847
- OCLC:
- 32291157
- Online:
- Publisher description
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