Our Mutual Friend (Wordsworth Classics)

by Charles Dickens (Author), Deborah Wynne (Introduction), Charles Dickens (Author), Charles Dickens (Author), Dr Keith Carabine (Series Editor), Deborah Wynne (Introduction), Charles Dickens (Author), F.W. Pailthrope (Illustrator)

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $7.11

  With an Introduction and Notes by Deborah Wynne, Chester College. Illustrated by Marcus Stone. Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes. The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to England as his father's heir. He is believed drowned under suspicious circumstances - a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity until he can evaluate Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance. The story is filled with colourful characters and incidents - the faded aristocrats and parvenus gathered at the Veneering's dinner table, Betty Higden and her terror of the workhouse and the greedy plottings of Silas Wegg.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $21.63

  Dickens set his final full-scale masterpiece in 1860s London, creating dozens of memorable characters. All the themes that engaged him as a mature writer are featured here: love and hate, wealth and poverty, honesty and duplicity, and the formation and reformation of identity.

• New

  Hardcover
  1994

  $27.34