Our Mutual Friend (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Dickens, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853261947 ISBN 13: 9781853261947

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 1997

Synopsis

With an Introduction and Notes by Deborah Wynne, Chester College. Illustrated by Marcus Stone.

Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes.

The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to England as his father's heir. He is believed drowned under suspicious circumstances - a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity until he can evaluate Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance.

The story is filled with colourful characters and incidents - the faded aristocrats and parvenus gathered at the Veneering's dinner table, Betty Higden and her terror of the workhouse and the greedy plottings of Silas Wegg.

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Review

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

From the Author

A guide to one of my best, world-class books
Well, if, like me you've been struggling to come to terms with your rampant imagination and like the idea of dead bodies floating in the River Thames, or chunks of dead bodies preserved in glass bottles, well then, I suppose this little number is just for you. Give it a try. Charles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1853261947
• ISBN 13: 9781853261947
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 832
• Illustrator: Pailthrope F.W.