Our mutual friend [Book] / Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Adrian Poole.
Material type: TextSeries: Penguin classicsPublication details: New York : New York : Penguin Books, 1997.Description: xxxiii, 884 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN:- 0140434976
- 9780140434972
- 823 .8 21
- 823.8
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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 River 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.
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