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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- Authors:
- Dickens, Charles
- Year Published:
- 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- Editors:
- Poole, Adrian
- ISBN:
- 9780140434972
- Number of Pages:
- 928
- Publication Date:
- 26/06/1997
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Publication Date:
- 26/06/1997
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9780140434972