Our Mutual Friend

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Penguin UK, 29 jan 2004 - 928 pagina's

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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Acknowledgements
A Dickens Chronology
Contents
List of Illustrations
at the latter part of the dialogue when the boy spoke these words slightingly
business at all and never shall have any And if I had I shouldnt know how
hate mine
CHAPTER III
As the disappearing skirts of the ladies ascended the Veneering staircase
Canterbury
uncompleted civilization His voice was hoarse and coarse and his face
VOLUME I
VOLUME II
Explanatory Notes
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Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenal success of his PICKWICK PAPERS. He held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years. Adrian Poole is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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