num_pages: 850
description: Charles Dickens's last completed novel tells the story of a young man who must marry a stranger in order to win his inheritance. Wanting to learn the lady's nature, John Harmon fakes his own death and takes on a new identity. As the complexities of the deceit are revealed, Dickens gives us his most profoundly cynical, yet brilliantly funny, insight into the corruption of wealth on human nature. 40 illustrations.
language: English
title: Our Mutual Friend
titlecomplete: Our Mutual Friend
characters: Mrs. Wilfer, Jenny Wren, Anastatia Veneering, Mortimer Lightwood, John Harmon, Hamilton Veneering, Lizzie Hexam, Alfred Lammle, Bob Gliddery, John Podsnap, Silas Wegg, Nicodemus Boffin, Mr. Riah, George Sampson, Eugene Wrayburn, Emma Peecher, Betty Higden, Reginald Wilfer, Henrietta Boffin, Georgiana Podsnap, Mr. Fledgeby, Bradley Headstone, Pleasant Riderhood, Abbey Potterson, Jesse Hexam, Lavinia Wilfer, Roger Riderhood, Sophronia Lammle, Sloppy, Lady Tippins, Melvin Twemlow, Bella Wilfer, Charley Hexam, Mr. Venus, Mrs. Podsnap
genres: Literature, Audiobook, Classics, Novels, Classic Literature, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 28902
places: London, England
publisher: Oxford University Press