One of the BBC's'100 Novels That Shaped Our World''The great poet of the city. He was created by London'Peter AckroydOur 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 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. Dickens's last completed novel is richly symbolic in its vision of death and renewal in a city dominated by the fetid Thames,and of the corrupting power of money.Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Adrian Poole
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780140434972Number of pages: 928Weight: 628 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 39 mm
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'The great poet of the city. He was created by London'Peter Ackroyd
Adrian Poole writes in his introduction to this new edition,'In its vast scope and perilous ambitions it has much in common with Bleak House and Little Dorrit,but its manner is more stealthy,on edge,enigmatic'.
Charles Dickens
A towering figure in the development of the novel,Charles Dickens was a British writer responsible for some of the best-loved works in the English language,including Oliver Twist,David Copperfield,A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations.
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