Our Mutual Friend Paperback - 1998
by Charles Dickens; Introduction by Adrian Poole; Notes by Adrian Poole
Charles Dickens's last completed novel tells the story of a young man who must marry a stranger in order to win his inheritance. Wanting to learn the lady's nature, John Harmon fakes his own death and takes on a new identity. As the complexities of the deceit are revealed, Dickens gives us his most profoundly cynical, yet brilliantly funny, insight into the corruption of wealth on human nature. 40 illustrations.
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Summary
‘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.
First Edition Identification
The book was first serialized from 1864-1865 in 19 monthly installments. It was then published as a novel in 1865 by Chapman & Hall, London, with 40 illustration plates by Marcus Stone.
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- Title Our Mutual Friend
- Author Charles Dickens; Introduction by Adrian Poole; Notes by Adrian Poole
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 928
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 1998-02-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780140434972 / 0140434976
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 1.7 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 4.32 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1090
- Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Satire
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98175962
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
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’.
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