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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- Charles Dickens - Author
- Adrian Poole - Editor
- Adrian Poole - Author of introduction, etc.
Kindle Book
- Release date: January 29, 2004
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- ISBN: 9780141920290
- Release date: January 29, 2004
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- ISBN: 9780141920290
- File size: 13011 KB
- Release date: January 29, 2004
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ATOS Level:8.8
Lexile® Measure:1090
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:7-9