An edition of Our Mutual Friend (1800)

Our mutual friend

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An edition of Our Mutual Friend (1800)

Our mutual friend

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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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Our Mutual Friend
2006, Project Gutenberg
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Our Mutual Friend
1978, Bounty Books
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Our Mutual Friend
1978, Bounty Books, Crown Pub
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Our Mutual Friend
1963, Dent
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Our Mutual Friend
1963, Dent
in English
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Our mutual friend
1959, Oxford University Press
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Our mutual friend
1926, Macmillan
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Our mutual friend
1894, Houghton, Mifflin Co.
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Our Mutual Friend: In Two Volumes: Vol. II
1894, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Our Mutual Friend
1872, Hurd and Houghton
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Our Mutual Friend
xxxx, Odhams Press Ltd
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Edition Notes

Works of Charles Dickens. New illustrated library ed. volume XXII
Title vignettes.

Published in
Boston
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PZ3.D55 Ou24, PR4568 Ou24

The Physical Object

Pagination
2 v.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6584327M
Internet Archive
ourmutualfriend00dick_5
LCCN
16003380
OCLC/WorldCat
3875831

First Sentence

"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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