Our Mutual Friend (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number of Pages: 832
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 1853261947
ISBN-13: 9781853261947
With an Introduction and Notes by Deborah Wynne, Chester College Our Mutual Friend, Dickens’ last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes. The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to England as his father’s heir. He is believed drowned under suspicious circumstances - a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity until he can evalu...