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Our Mutual Friend is a satiric masterpiece about money. The last novel Dickens completed, and perhaps his most angry, it sounds all the great themes of his later work: the innocence and venality of the aspiring poor, the hollow pretensions of the nouveau riche, the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt everyone it touches. Among those caught up in the ruthless forces of change in Dickens's London are the archetypal innocent Noddy Boffin, who 'inherits' a dustheap where the trash of the rich is thrown; Silas Wegg, a grotesque, one-legged man with unlimited fantasies of grandeur and power; Mr. Veneering, Member of Parliament, whose house, furnishings, servants, carriage, and baby are all 'bran-new'; and Alfred and Sophronia Lammle, who marry one another because each wrongly believes the other is rich. The social themes of Our Mutual Friend--having to do with the treatment of the poor, education, representative government, even the inheritance laws--are informed and brought into coherence by the underlying presence of the Thames, signifying the perpetual flow of life into death, and acting as agent of retribution and regeneration too, as a kind of river god in fact, in a novel in which no other god is very present.
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Accessible book, Social life and customs, Classic Literature, Deception, Poor families, Social classes, open_syllabus_project, Inheritance and succession, Fiction, Materialism, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), English literature, Manners and customs, London (England), England, fiction, London (england), fiction, Motorboats, Periodicals, Heirs, Fiction, historical, general, Crime, Romance ingles, Fiction, crime, Fiction, classics, Fiction, general, Children's fiction, Successions et héritages, Romans, nouvelles, Classes sociales, Familles pauvres, TromperiePlaces
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2020, Independently Published
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Our Mutual Friend - With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton
Mar 06, 2020, Read & Co. Books
hardcover
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OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
Aug 10, 2019, Independently published, Independently Published
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Jan 31, 2018, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Apr 22, 2018, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Jun 18, 2018, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Feb 08, 2018, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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May 11, 2018, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Our Mutual Friend: By Charles Dickens - Illustrated
2017, Independently Published
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Nov 17, 2017, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Our Mutual Friend: Illustrated Classics Vol. 103
2017, Independently Published
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2017, Independently Published
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Our mutual friend by Charles Dickens
Mar 04, 2016, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Our Mutual Friend: Volume II
Nov 26, 2016, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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The Works Of Charles Dickens ...: Our Mutual Friend
Oct 25, 2015, Arkose Press
hardcover
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The Works of Charles Dickens: David Copperfield, Part Ii. Reprinted Pieces
Oct 18, 2015, Arkose Press
hardcover
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Nov 06, 2015, Arkose Press
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Works Of Charles Dickens: Christmas Stories
Oct 27, 2015, Arkose Press
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Nov 09, 2015, Arkose Press
hardcover
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Jul 01, 2012, Blackstone Audio, Inc., Craig Black
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Our Mutual Friend: The Nonesuch Dickens Collection
Mar 21, 2012, The Overlook Press
hardcover
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Dec 18, 2012, Classic Collection, The Classic Collection
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Our Mutual Friend
March 4, 2008, Naxos AudioBooks
Audio CD
in English
- Abridged edition
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Our Mutual Friend: Library Edition
October 2007, Blackstone Audiobooks
MP3 CD
in English
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Our Mutual Friend: Library Edition
October 2007, Blackstone Audiobooks
Audio CD
in English
- Unabridged edition
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May 22, 2007, Naxos of America
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in English
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October 2007, Blackstone Audiobooks
Audio CD
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Our Mutual Friend
August 10, 2006, Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books, Hodder Audio
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Our Mutual Friend
March 30, 2005, Kessinger Publishing
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in English
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Our mutual friend. By Charles Dickens.
December 20, 2005, Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
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December 22, 2005, Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
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The Our Mutual Friend: Radio Dramatization
March 2003, BBC Books
Audio Cassette
in English
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Our Mutual Friend
July 2003, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
Turtleback
in English
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March 2003, BBC Books
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March 4, 2002, BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Audio Cassette
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Our Mutual Friend (Ultimate Classics)
July 2001, New Millennium Audio
Audio Cassette
in English
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Our Mutual Friend
2000, Random House Publishing Group
Electronic resource
in English
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Our Mutual Friend (Collected Works of Charles Dickens)
May 2000, Classic Books
Library Binding
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Our Mutual Friend: Parts 1 & 2 (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection)
January 30, 1999, Audio Book Contractors, Inc.
Audio Cassette
in English
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Our Mutual Friend: BBC (BBC Radio Presents)
January 5, 1999, Random House Audio
Audio Cassette
in English
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Our Mutual Friend (Oxford World's Classics)
July 17, 1998, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
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Our Mutual Friend (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)
April 1, 1998, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Paperback
in English
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Our Mutual Friend (Penguin Classics)
February 1998, Tandem Library
in English
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Our Mutual Friend (Everyman's Library Classics)
April 21, 1994, Everyman's Library
Hardcover
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Our Mutual Friend
Jul 01, 1990, Bantam Classics, Brand: Bantam Classics
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Our Mutual Friend (Ultimate Classics)
October 1987, Dove Books
Audio Cassette
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October 22, 1987, Oxford University Press, USA
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Our Mutual Friend (Guided Reader)
March 1978, Macmillan Education Ltd
Paperback
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July 1, 1964, Signet Classics
in English
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July 1, 1964, Signet Classics
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1964, Penguin Publishing Group, Signet Classics
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1898-01-01, Chapman & Hall
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Our Mutual Friend
1886, Estes and Lauriat
in English
- People's ed. / with 200 illustrations by Cruikshank, Phiz, Barnard, and others.
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"IN THESE TIMES OF OURS, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark Bridge, which is of iron, and London Bridge, which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in."
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