On Mutual Friend

b>One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World./b>Dickens exposes the corrupting power of money in his last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, with its expansive cast of characters and interweaving plots.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has an afterword by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley and original illustrations by Marcus Stone.John Harmon made his fortune collecting 'dust'. On his death his estranged son is due to inherit his wealth on the condition that he marry Bella Wilfer, a young woman who he has never even met. But when his son is presumed dead, John's riches pass to his servants Mr. and Mrs. Boffin and they in turn take Bella into their own home. They hire a secretive young man, John Rokesmith, to be Mr. Boffin's secretary - but what is this man's real identity and what is his interest in Bella?

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I find it irresistible: the autumn evening closing in, the crazy little boat afloat on the filthy Thames, the strong young woman plying the oars and a ragged, grizzled man, her father, busying himself with something towed in the water behind them. You are some way into the narrative before it dawns on you that it is a drowned body. Shirley Hughes Independent

Product details

• Authors: Charles Dickens
• Assisted by: Marcus Stone (Illustration), Stone Marcus (Illustration), Lucinda Dickens Hawksley (Introduction), Hawksley Lucinda Dickens (Introduction)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781529011746
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-1174-6
• No. of pages: 1184
• Dimensions: 93 mm x 150 mm x 56 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Satire, London, Greater London, c 1800 to c 1900, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Literary, Satirical fiction and parodies, Family Life / General, City Life, c 1860 to c 1869