Martin Chuzzlewit: Introduction by William Boyd (Everyman's Library Classics) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067943884X ISBN 13: 9780679438847

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 1995

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

Martin Chuzzlewit is a dramatic serial on Masterpiece Theatre, a PBS television series presented by WGBH-TV, Boston, made possible by a grant from Mobil Corporation.

Book Description:

Martin Chuzzlewit is a comic masterpiece which courted controversy on publication with its scathing portrayal of nineteenth-century America

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 067943884X
• ISBN 13: 9780679438847
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 988