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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Martin Chuzzlewit'
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book titled Martin Chuzzlewit about with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense.
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conversations.value: Martin Chuzzlewit: Martin Chuzzlewit has been raised by his grandfather and namesake.\nYears before, Martin senior took the precaution of raising an orphaned girl, Mary Graham.\nShe is to be his nursemaid, with the understanding that she will be well cared for only as long as Martin senior lives.\nShe thus has strong motivation to promote his well-being, in contrast to his relatives, who only want to inherit his money.\nHowever, his grandson Martin falls in love with Mary and wishes to marry her, ruining Martin senior\'s plans.\nWhen Martin refuses to give up the engagement, his grandfather disinherits him.\nMartin becomes an apprentice to Seth Pecksniff, a greedy architect.\nInstead of teaching his students, he lives off their tuition fees and has them do draughting work that he passes off as his own.\nHe has two spoiled daughters, nicknamed Cherry and Merry, having been christened as Charity and Mercy.\nUnbeknown to Martin, Pecksniff has actually taken him on to establish closer ties with the wealthy grandfather, thinking that this will gain Pecksniff a prominent place in the will.\nYoung Martin befriends Tom Pinch, a kind-hearted soul whose late grandmother had given Pecksniff all she had, believing Pecksniff would make an architect and gentleman of him.\nPinch is incapable of believing any of the bad things others tell him of Pecksniff, and always defends him vociferously.\nPinch works for exploitatively low wages, while believing he is the unworthy recipient of Pecksniff\'s charity.\nWhen Martin senior hears of his grandson\'s new life, he demands that Pecksniff kick young Martin out.\nThen, Martin senior moves in and falls under Pecksniff\'s control.\nDuring this time, Pinch falls in love with Mary, but does not declare it, knowing of her attachment to young Martin.\nOne of Martin senior\'s greedy relatives is his brother, Anthony Chuzzlewit, who is in business with his son, Jonas.\nDespite considerable wealth, they live miserly, cruel lives, with Jonas constantly berating his father, eager for the old man to die so he can inherit.\nAnthony dies abruptly and under suspicious circumstances, leaving his wealth to Jonas.\nJonas then woos Cherry, whilst arguing constantly with Merry.\nHe then abruptly declares to Pecksniff that he wants to marry Merry, and jilts Cherry - not without demanding an additional 1,000 pounds on top of the 4,000 that Pecksniff had promised him as Cherry\'s dowry, with the argument that Cherry has better chances for matchmaking.\nJonas, meanwhile, becomes entangled with the unscrupulous Montague Tigg and joins in his pyramid scheme-like insurance scam.\nAt the beginning of the book he is a petty thief and hanger-on of a Chuzzlewit relative, Chevy Slyme.\nTigg cheats young Martin out of a valuable pocket watch and uses the funds to transform himself into a seemingly fine man called "Tigg Montague".\nThis façade convinces investors that he must be an important businessman from whom they may greatly profit.\nJonas eventually ends up murdering Tigg, who has acquired some kind of information on him.\nAt this time, Tom Pinch finally sees his employer\'s true character.\nPinch goes to London to seek employment, and rescues his governess sister Ruth, whom he discovers has been mistreated by the family employing her.\nPinch quickly receives an ideal job from a mysterious employer, with the help of an equally mysterious Mr Fips.\nYoung Martin, meanwhile, has encountered Mark Tapley.\nMark is always cheerful, which he decides does not reflect well on him because he is always in happy circumstances and it shows no strength of character to be happy when one has good fortune.\nHe decides he must test his cheerfulness by seeing if he can maintain it in the worst circumstances possible.\nTo this end, he accompanies young Martin when he goes to the United States to seek his fortune.\nThe men attempt to start new lives in a swampy, disease-filled settlement named "Eden", but both nearly die of malaria.\nMark finally finds himself in a situation in which it can be considered a virtue to remain in good spirits.\nThe grim experience, and Mark\'s care nursing Martin back to health, change Martin\'s selfish and proud character, and the men return to England, where Martin returns penitently to his grandfather.\nBut his grandfather is now under Pecksniff\'s control and rejects him.\nAt this point, Martin is reunited with Tom Pinch, who now discovers that his mysterious benefactor is old Martin Chuzzlewit.\nThe older Martin had only been pretending to be in thrall to Pecksniff.\nTogether, the group confront Pecksniff with their knowledge of his true character.\nThey also discover that Jonas murdered Tigg to prevent him from revealing that he had planned to murder Anthony.\nSenior Martin now reveals that he was angry at his grandson for becoming engaged to Mary because he had planned to arrange that particular match himself, and felt his glory had been thwarted by them deciding on the plan themselves.\nHe realises the folly of that opinion, and Martin and his grandfather are reconciled.\nMartin and Mary are married, as are Ruth Pinch and John Westlock, another former student of Pecksniff\'s.\nTom Pinch remains in unrequited love with Mary for the rest of his life, never marrying, and always being a warm companion to Mary and Martin and to Ruth and John.
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conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: Martin Chuzzlewit
  Mrs Gamp was a lady of that happy temperament which can be ecstatic without any other stimulating cause than a general desire to establish a large and profitable connection. She added daily so many strings to her bow, that she made a perfect harp of it; and upon that instrument she now began to perform an extemporaneous concerto. (Chapter 46)
  Added to these features is the confused structure of her sentences; chaotic syntax is the norm of her speech. She can for instance, in quoting one of her imaginary conversations with Mrs Harris, confuse even a brief exchange:
  I says to Mrs Harris when she says to me 'Years and our trials, Mrs Gamp sets marks upon us all.' – 'Say not the words, Mrs Harris, if you and me is to continual friends.'
  The imaginary Mrs Harris is the key to Mrs Gamp's success. By means of that invaluable ally Mrs Gamp is able to mix up a fictitious dialogue with her own monologue; and thus we have something dramatic to give life and point to her oration.
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conversations.value: Give me another paragraph.
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conversations.value: The imaginary Mrs Harris is the key to Mrs Gamp's success. By means of that invaluable ally Mrs Gamp is able to mix up a fictitious dialogue with her own monologue; and thus we have something dramatic to give life and point to her oration.
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conversations.value: Give me the last four paragraphs.
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conversations.value: The imaginary Mrs Harris is the key to Mrs Gamp's success. By means of that invaluable ally Mrs Gamp is able to mix up a fictitious dialogue with her own monologue; and thus we have something dramatic to give life and point to her oration.
  The non-existent Mrs Harris and her admiration for 'Sairey' are the pivot around which Mrs Gamp's speech revolves. Her language is, in linguistic terms, fantastic and it mirrors a fantasy world: she is necessarily the only native speaker of her particular dialect. Other people sometimes try to explain her to her listeners. When she extemporizes for instance on the theme of 'Rooshans' and 'Prooshans', Pecksniff interprets: 'If I understand this good lady... Mr Chuffey is troublesome to her' (19). Earlier young Bailey misunderstands her injunction to consider 'the Wings of Love', taking it to be the recommendation of a racehorse.
  Many of her speeches end with a triumphant and opaque assertion such as 'Gamp is my name, and Gamp my nater'. There is an underlying assumption that as she bends pronunciation and sentence structure she can bend meaning and pre-empt interventions or opposition from others. This is a point emphasized by the irony of the narrator himself having to wait for a pause in her torrent of words in order to give a necessary piece of information:
  It is when Betsey Prig announces publicly that there is no such person as Mrs Harris that the Gamp world crumbles. When later Jonas asks her to take care of Chuffey she can now speak only in a 'quavering croak'. And the narrator comments on her reply that she and Mrs Harris will work 'turn and turn about': 'It was extraordinary how much effort it cost Mrs Gamp to pronounce the name she was commonly so ready with' (51). When her solipsistic world collapses she meets her come-uppance and is silenced.