Our Mutual Friend Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend

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Publisher Description

Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life", but is also about human values. In the opening chapters a body is found in the Thames and identified as that of John Harmon, a young man recently returned to London to receive his inheritance. Were he alive, his father's will would require him to marry Bella Wilfer, a beautiful, mercenary girl whom he had never met. Instead, the money passes to the working-class Boffins, and the effects spread into various corners of London society.

GENRE
Romance
RELEASED
1865
January 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
1,331
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SELLER
Public Domain
SIZE
796.9
KB

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An Amazing Exercise

So the lady thought that she was a good English student, but it took her much determined slogging to get to the end of this tome. But why did she persevere? Because the craft of Dickens is of such high caliber that she could not leave the book without knowing of the disposition of all of the tremendous characters, heroes, heroines, and villains alike. However, she is finally released from the thrall of the story and declares it "a marvelous ride."

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