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Our Mutual Friend - Penguin Classics
Charles Dickens, Adrian Poole
Paperback (26 Jun 1997)


One of the BBCs 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 Harmons 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. Dickenss 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


Product details

Format Paperback | 928 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 39mm | 628g
Publication date 01 Feb 1998
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement Revised ed.
Illustrations note w. figs.
ISBN10 0140434976
ISBN13 9780140434972
Bestsellers rank 89,219