num_pages: 857
description: Our Mutual Friend - by Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend is a satiric masterpiece about money. The last novel Dickens completed, and perhaps his most angry, it sounds all the great themes of his later the innocence and venality of the aspiring poor, the hollow pretensions of the nouveau riche, the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt everyone it touches. Among those caught up in the ruthless forces of change in Dickens's London are the archetypal innocent Noddy Boffin, who 'inherits' a dustheap where the trash of the rich is thrown; Silas Wegg, a grotesque, one-legged man with unlimited fantasies of grandeur and power; Mr. Veneering, Member of Parliament, whose house, furnishings, servants, carriage, and baby are all 'bran-new'; and Alfred and Sophronia Lammle, who marry one another because each wrongly believes the other is rich. The social themes of Our Mutual Friend --having to do with the treatment of the poor, education, representative government, even the inheritance laws--are informed and brought into coherence by the underlying presence of the Thames, signifying the perpetual flow of life into death, and acting as agent of retribution and regeneration too, as a kind of river god in fact, in a novel in which no other god is very present. Each Week we will be adding exciting new additions to our E-book Sections. Check back frequently so you don't miss these much loved stories at fantastic savings.
language: English
title: Our mutual friend
titlecomplete: Our mutual friend
characters: Jesse Hexam, Lavinia Wilfer, George Sampson, Sophronia Lammle, Henrietta Boffin, Abbey Potterson, Mortimer Lightwood, John Harmon, Mr. Fledgeby, Sloppy, Reginald Wilfer, Jenny Wren, Melvin Twemlow, Bella Wilfer, Charley Hexam, Lady Tippins, Lizzie Hexam, Bradley Headstone, Nicodemus Boffin, Mr. Riah, Silas Wegg, Eugene Wrayburn, Roger Riderhood, Betty Higden, Bob Gliddery, John Podsnap, Mrs. Wilfer, Georgiana Podsnap, Mr. Venus, Alfred Lammle, Anastatia Veneering, Pleasant Riderhood, Emma Peecher, Mrs. Podsnap, Hamilton Veneering
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, British Literature, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Literature, Victorian, Novels
ratings_count: 28900
places: London, England
publisher: Bounty Books