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The Penguin English Library Edition of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
"Yours is a 'spectable calling. To save your 'spectability, it's worth your while to pawn every article of clothes you've got, sell every stick in your house, and beg and borrow every penny you can get trusted with. When you've done that and handed over, I'll leave you. Not afore"
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.
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Paperback. Pub Date :2012-09-27 Pages: 1008 Language: English Publisher: Penguin PressClassics The Penguin English Library Edition of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. Yours is a spectable calling. To save your spectability. its worth your while to pawn every article of clothes youve got. sell every stick in your house. and beg and borrow every penny you can get trusted with. When youve done that and handed over. Ill leave you. Not afore 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 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 soci...
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"The fact that Dickens is always thought of as a caricaturist, although he was constantly trying to be something else, is perhaps the surest mark of his genius." --George Orwell
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0141199806
- ISBN 13 9780141199801
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages1008
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