Description
Title: Our Mutual Friend
Author: DICKENS CHARLES
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 26/06/1997
Imprint: PENGUIN CLASSIC
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
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; enchanting, mercenary Bella Wilfer; the social climbing Veneerings; and the unscrupulous street-trader Silas Wegg. The novel is richly symbolic in its vision of death and renewal in a city dominated by the fetid Thames, and the corrupting power of money.
ISBN: 9780140434972
Weight: 628g
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 928
Edition: 02