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Our Mutual Friend: Introduction by Andrew Sanders Hardcover - 1994
by Charles Dickens; Introduction by Andrew Sanders
About this book
Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is in many ways one of his most sophisticated works, combining deep psychological insight with rich social analysis. At one level it centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life" but in a deeper sense it's also about 'human values'.
Summary
Our Mutual Friend is a satiric masterpiece about money. The last novel Dickens completed, and perhaps his most angry, it sounds all the great themes of his later work: the innocence and venality of the aspiring poor, the hollow pretensions of the nouveau riche, the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt everyone it touches. Among those caught up in the ruthless forces of change in Dickens's London are the archetypal innocent Noddy Boffin, who 'inherits' a dustheap where the trash of the rich is thrown; Silas Wegg, a grotesque, one-legged man with unlimited fantasies of grandeur and power; Mr. Veneering, Member of Parliament, whose house, furnishings, servants, carriage, and baby are all 'bran-new'; and Alfred and Sophronia Lammle, who marry one another because each wrongly believes the other is rich. The social themes of Our Mutual Friend--having to do with the treatment of the poor, education, representative government, even the inheritance laws--are informed and brought into coherence by the underlying presence of the Thames, signifying the perpetual flow of life into death, and acting as agent of retribution and regeneration too, as a kind of river god in fact, in a novel in which no other god is very present.
From the rear cover
'Our Mutual Friend' is crammed with narratives of concealment and mistaken identity, of murder and attempted murder, of sin and redemption, and is continually propelled by a satiric impulse and a theatricality almost surreal in their power.
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: Introduction by Andrew Sanders
- Author Charles Dickens; Introduction by Andrew Sanders
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 880
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Everyman's Library, U.S.A.
- Date 1994-05-10
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780679420286 / 0679420282
- Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.2 x 1.7 in (20.83 x 13.21 x 4.32 cm)
- Reading level 1090
- Library of Congress subjects London (England), Love stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93081033
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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