Our Mutual Friend: Edited with an introduction and notes by Adrian Poole (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Charles Dickens

 
9780140434972: Our Mutual Friend: Edited with an introduction and notes by Adrian Poole (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140434976 ISBN 13: 9780140434972
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1997

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'

'The great poet of the city. He was created by London' Peter Ackroyd

Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees: young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the Thames, and kindly dustman Mr Boffin, to whom the fortune defaults. With brilliant satire, Dickens portrays a dark, macabre London, inhabited by such disparate characters as Gaffer Hexam, scavenging the river for corpses; enchanting, mercenary Bella Wilfer; the social-climbing Veneerings; and the unscrupulous street-trader Silas Wegg. Dickens's last completed novel is richly symbolic in its vision of death and renewal in a city dominated by the fetid Thames, and of the corrupting power of money.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Adrian Poole

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenal success of his PICKWICK PAPERS. He held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years. Adrian Poole is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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Tells a story spanning all levels of Victorian society. This book centre's on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees, young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the River Thames, and kindly dustman Mr Boffin, to whom the fortune defaults.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140434976
ISBN 13 
9780140434972
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
928
Herausgeber
Adrian Poole
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