Our Mutual Friend
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- Paperback
928 pages
- Release Date
26 June 1997
Summary
Dickens’ last completed novel portraying a dark, macabre London.
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; enchantin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140434972 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140434976 |
| Author: | Charles Dickens, Adrian Poole |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 928 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 26 June 1997 |
| Weight: | 618g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 42mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Critics Review
‘The great poet of the city. He was created by London’
‘The great poet of the city. He was created by London’ Peter Ackroyd
Adrian Poole writes in his introduction to this new edition, ‘In its vast scope and perilous ambitions it has much in common with Bleak House and Little Dorrit, but its manner is more stealthy, on edge, enigmatic’.
About The Author
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenal success of his PICKWICK PAPERS. He held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years. Adrian Poole is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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