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Our Mutual Friend : Introduction by Andrew Sanders by Charles Dickens (1994, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679420282

ISBN-139780679420286

eBay Product ID (ePID)53224

Product Key Features

Book TitleOur Mutual Friend : Introduction by Andrew Sanders

Number of Pages880 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Satire, Literary

Publication Year1994

GenreFiction

AuthorCharles Dickens

Book SeriesEveryman's Library Classics Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.9 in

Item Weight32.7 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN93-081033

Reviews"The fact that Dickens is always thought of as a caricaturist, although he was constantly trying to be something else, is perhaps the surest mark of his genius." - George Orwell From the Trade Paperback edition., "The fact that Dickens is always thought of as a caricaturist, although he was constantly trying to be something else, is perhaps the surest mark of his genius." -- George Orwell, "The fact that Dickens is always thought of as a caricaturist, although he was constantly trying to be something else, is perhaps the surest mark of his genius." -George Orwell From the Trade Paperback edition., "The fact that Dickens is always thought of as a caricaturist, although he was constantly trying to be something else, is perhaps the surest mark of his genius." George Orwell

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal823/.8

SynopsisWhen John Harmon--who has been left a fortune if he will marry the girl his miserly father chose for him--is found floating dead in the Thames, he sets in motion a story overflowing with cases of deception and mistaken identity, of murder and attempted murder, of sin and redemption. The influence of the notorious Harmon inheritance ripples through a large cast of vividly drawn characters from every level of society, including Noddy Boffin, known as "the Golden Dustman"; the one-legged villain Silas Wegg; willful Bella Wilfer; saintly Lizzie Hexam; the sharp-witted doll's dressmaker Jenny Wren; the social-climbing Veneerings; the ruthless speculator Fascination Fledgeby; and the river-scavenging corpse robbers Gaffer Hexam and Rogue Riderhood. Out of this flurry of invention Dickens creates in Our Mutual Friend a portrait of a city and a civilization that is at once indignant, compassionate, and utterly unforgettable. Charles Dickens's last completed novel features one of his most surreal and haunting visions of London, shadowed by towering dust heaps that supply the corrupting riches at the heart of the plot and washed by the dark river that winds its way insistently through the story. This edition reprints the original Everyman's preface by G. K. Chesterton and features forty illustrations by Marcus Stone.

LC Classification NumberPR4568.A2S36 1994