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"money, money, money, and what money can make of life" “And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!” This last novel completed by Dickens is perhaps his most sophisticated, as it follows the effects of an inheritance as it spreads through working-class society.

Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens' Most Beautifully Written Satiric MasterpieceCharles Dickens was known for many elaborate works of literature, some of which were complex, well-developed, highly insightful and even multidimensional, in the way they dealt with the many different facets of human depth and emotion. Nevertheless, with all his other works set in the background, Our Mutual Friend stands out as what many have named Dickens' greatest novel, and a worthy rival of worldwide famous works like Lev Tolstoy's War and Peace. The sheer number of characters and the complexity of the book's plot is enough to compete with the longest, most well-written novels that have ever been created, both until and after the era which Charles Dickens was part of. Not only that, but while many novels focus on similar values and goals in a largely linear fashion, Dickens managed to create a world in which actions followed each other in a flowing, natural manner, sometimes focusing on layers of mysteries and insightful reflections, while other times growing in intensity and outlining vast areas of the endless spectrum of human emotions, including happiness, joy, love, sorrow, hate, anger and pain.The underlying focus of the novel is on the effect of greed and the way people never fail to be corrupted and betrayed by their own craving toward wealth and riches. This is readily depicted at the beginning of the novel, where we witness the death of a man who was to inherit a dust heap that the rich throw their trash in.While reading Our Mutual Friend, one of the major qualities of the novel is you never really know what to expect next. With children often “educating” grownups, and the poor providing the wealthy with a dose of true richness, the book offers genuine value at a depth that even more modern stories can only dream of delivering. In those terms, Our Mutual Friend is considered a genuine work of art.

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 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 River 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. The novel is richly symbolic in its vision of death and renewal in a city dominated by the fetid Thames, and the corrupting power of money. Our Mutual Friend uses text of the first volume edition of 1865 and includes original illustrations, a chronology and revised further reading. As 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.'

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 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 River 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. The novel is richly symbolic in its vision of death and renewal in a city dominated by the fetid Thames, and the corrupting power of money. Our Mutual Friend uses text of the first volume edition of 1865 and includes original illustrations, a chronology and revised further reading. As 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.'

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Book Description Release date: July 1, 1964 | Series: Signet classics 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 River 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. The novel is richly symbolic in its vision of death and renewal in a city dominated by the fetid Thames, and the corrupting power of money.