Title | : | Our Mutual Friend |
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Author | : | Charles Dickens |
Release | : | 2022-11-22 |
Kind | : | audiobook |
Genre | : | Classics |
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1 | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens |
'The great poet of the city. He was created by London' Peter Ackroyd 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 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. ©2020 Pandora's Box (P)2020 Pandora's Box |