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Our Mutual Friend. (The last completed NOVEL By: Charles Dicken

Our Mutual Friend. (The last completed NOVEL By: Charles Dicken

Dicken, Charles

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1540333337
ISBN13: 9781540333339
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 10 2016
Pages: 554
Weight: 2.79
Height: 1.12 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) is the last completed novel written by Charles Dickens. It centers on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, money, money, money, and what money can make of life (which is, incidently, a quote from Our Mutual Friend, spoken by Bella at the end of book III, chapter iv.). In the opening chapter, a young man is on his way to receive his inheritance, which, according to his father's will, he can only claim if he marries Bella Wilfer, a beautiful, mercenary girl whom he has never met. However, before he can arrive, a body is found in the Thames and identified as him. The money passes on, instead, to the Boffins, and the effects spread throughout various corners of London society. The book is largely believed to be the most challenging and complicated that Dickens produced. Reviews at the time of publication were not generally favorable, but critical opinion shifted in the century that followed. Although somewhat a mystery, an important point concerning the identity of certain characters is revealed halfway through, without hinting as to the ending.

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