Our mutual friend
By: Charles Dickens ; introduction by Richard T. Gaughan ; notes by Jennifer Mooney.
Contributors: Mooney, Jennifer.
Series: The Modern Library Classics
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 834
Subjects: Inheritance and succession -- Fiction.; Social classes -- Fiction.; Poor families -- Fiction.; Deception -- Fiction.; London (England) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: John Harmon returns to England as his father's heir. Believed drowned under suspicious circumstances--a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity--John evaluates Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance. The story is filled with colorful Victorian 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. A comprehensive and penetrating account of Victorian society stiffled by materialism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.