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by Dickens, Charles
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Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is in many ways one of his most sophisticated works, combining deep psychological insight with rich social analysis. At one level it centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life" but in a deeper sense it's also about 'human values'.
Summary
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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A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, "Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap's expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights "Noddy" Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk who becomes "the Golden Dustman." Charles Dickens's last complete novel, "Our Mutual Friend encompasses the great themes of his earlier works: the pretensions of the nouveaux riches, the ingenuousness of the aspiring poor, and the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt all who crave it. With its flavorful cast of characters and numerous subplots, "Our Mutual Friend is one of Dickens's most complex--and satisfying--novels.
First Edition Identification
The book was first serialized from 1864-1865 in 19 monthly installments. It was then published as a novel in 1865 by Chapman & Hall, London, with 40 illustration plates by Marcus Stone.
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- Title Our Mutual Friend (Modern Library Classics)
- Author Dickens, Charles
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 880
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Modern Library, New York, New York
- Date 2002-09-10
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # 5AAWX7000Z70_ns
- ISBN 9780375761140 / 0375761144
- Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.9 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 4.83 cm)
- Reading level 1090
- Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Satire
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002029510
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Christianity Today, 02/01/2012, Page 48
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