Our Mutual Friend

Dickens, Charles

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In Our Mutual Friend, his last completed novel, Dickens turned again to question the life and soul of a society corrupted by money.

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Publish Date: 26/06/1997
ISBN: 9780140434972 Category: Tag:

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One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’

‘The great poet of the city. He was created by London’ Peter Ackroyd

Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance – Old Harmon’s profitable dust heaps – and its legatees: young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the Thames, and kindly dustman Mr Boffin, to whom the fortune defaults. With brilliant satire, Dickens portrays a dark, macabre London, inhabited by such disparate characters as Gaffer Hexam, scavenging the river for corpses; enchanting, mercenary Bella Wilfer; the social-climbing Veneerings; and the unscrupulous street-trader Silas Wegg. Dickens’s last completed novel is richly symbolic in its vision of death and renewal in a city dominated by the fetid Thames, and of the corrupting power of money.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Adrian Poole

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Weight 628 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 39 mm
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Paperback

Pages

884

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

823.8 (edition:21)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K