Our Mutual Friends

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Dickens' last completed novel portraying a dark, macabre London

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 River 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. The novel is richly symbolic in its vision of death and renewal in a city dominated by the fetid Thames, and the corrupting power of money.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780140434972
Published: June 1997

Number of pages: 928
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 39 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd