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Our Mutual Friend

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Our Mutual Friend

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ISBN: 9780140434972
Title: Our Mutual Friend
Author: DICKENS CHARLES

'Has a dead man any use for money? What world does money belong to? This world. How can money be a corpse's?' 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. This edition uses the text of the first volume edition of 1865, and includes the original illustrations, a chronology, a list for further reading, and appendices on the illustrations and serial plans. Adrian Poole's introduction examines biblical allusions and the central themes of Our Mutual Friend.

Format: Paperback
Price: $26.00