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Our Mutual Friend

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 ...

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: Penguin UK

ISBN: 0141920297

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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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Which was more cheerful than intelligible. Then Sloppy seeming to be seized with an industrious mania or fury, turned to at the mangle, and impelled 204 OUR MUTUAL FRIEND.

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

ISBN: 1616400307

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It is impossible to overstate the importance of British novelist CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) not only to literature in the English language, but to Western civilization on the whole. He is arguably the first fiction writer to have become an international celebrity. He popularized episodic fiction and the cliffhanger, which had a profound influence on the development of film and television. He is entirely responsible for the popular image of Victorian London that still lingers today, and his characters-from Oliver Twist to Ebenezer Scrooge, from Miss Havisham to Uriah Heep-have become not merely iconic, but mythic. But it was his stirring portraits of ordinary people-not the upper classes or the aristocracy-and his fervent cries for social, moral, and legal justice for the working poor, and in particular for poor children, in the grim early decades of the Industrial Revolution that powerfully impacted social concerns well into the 20th century. Without Charles Dickens, we may never have seen the likes of Sherlock Holmes, Upton Sinclair, or even Bob Dylan. Here, in 30 beautiful volumes-complete with all the original illustrations-is every published word written by one of the most important writers ever. The essential collector's set will delight anyone who cherishes English literature...and who takes pleasure in constantly rediscovering its joys. This volume contains Part I of Our Mutual Friend, Dickens's final novel, which was originally serialized in standalone installments in 1864-65. A satire on avarice and the power of money to influence human behavior, it is Dickens's most sophisticated work, and the fullest expression of the writer's authority and persuasiveness.
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friends he has in the world ; or what audience so fit for him to take into his confidence as that audience , a noun of multitude , or signifying many , who are all the ... too much nose of a coarse wrong shape , and OUR MUTUAL FRIEND .

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Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864-65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis.

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Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864-65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, quoting from the character Bella Wilfer in the book, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life." (from wikipedia.org)
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Mrs. W. A gentleman undoubtedly occupies our first floor . Mr. B. I may call him Our Mutual Friend . What sort of a fellow is Our Mutual Friend , now ? Do you like him ? Mrs. W. Pardon me ! From the limited period of my acquaintance ...

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Our Mutual Friend

“ Dear friend , I said so . ... Miss Jenny gave up altogether on this parting taking place between the friends , and , sitting with her back towards the bed in the bower made by her bright ... Mortimer Lightwood 172 OUR MUTUAL FRIEND .

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Our mutual friend 1869

Who so fit to discourse of the happiness of Mr. and Mrs. Lammle , they being the dearest and oldest friends he has in the world ; or what audience so fit for him to take into his ... For all of these reasons , OUR MUTUAL FRIEND . 299.

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Who so fit to discourse of the happiness of Mr and Mrs Lammle , they being the dearest and oldest friends he has in the world ; or what audience so fit for him to take ... no better way out of it , Veneering here 436 OUR MUTUAL FRIEND .

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Our Mutual Friend Volume I Esprios Classics

You know our dear friend Podsnap?' Twemlow ought to know the dear friend Podsnap who covered him with so much confusion, and he says he does know him, and Podsnap reciprocates. Apparently, Podsnap has been so wrought upon in a short ...

Author: Charles Dickens

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