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Our Mutual Friend, Version 2 by Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend, Version 2 by Charles Dickens

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 Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life" but is also about human values. In the opening chapters a body is found in the Thames and identified as John Harmon, a young man recently returned to London to receive his inheritance. Were he alive, his father's will would require him to marry Bella Wilfer, a beautiful, mercenary girl whom he had never met. Instead, the money passes to the working-class Boffins, and the effects spread into various corners of London society.Copyright Beauty_23 Art Literary History & Criticism
Episodes
  • 68 - POSTSCRIPT, IN LIEU OF PREFACE

    68 - POSTSCRIPT, IN LIEU OF PREFACE
    Sep 9 2025
    6 mins
  • 67 - Book 4 Chap. 17 THE VOICE OF SOCIETY

    67 - Book 4 Chap. 17 THE VOICE OF SOCIETY
    Sep 9 2025
    14 mins
  • 66 - Book 4 Chap. 16 PERSONS AND THINGS IN GENERAL

    66 - Book 4 Chap. 16 PERSONS AND THINGS IN GENERAL
    Sep 9 2025
    27 mins
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