Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens's last complete novel and a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian society 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…
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Weitere Autoren: Poole, Adrian (Hrsg.) / Poole, Adrian (Einf.) / Poole, Adrian (Anmerk.)
- ISBN: 978-0-14-043497-2
- EAN: 9780140434972
- Produktnummer: 9388145
- Verlag: Penguin Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 928 S.
- Masse: H19.9 cm x B12.8 cm x D4.0 cm 620 g
- Abbildungen: facsimiles
- Gewicht: 620
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Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenal success of his PICKWICK PAPERS. He held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years. Adrian Poole is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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