description: 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.
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: 28903
places: London, England
publisher: Signet Classics