Our mutual friend 96 editions
Our Mutual Friend is a satiric masterpiece about money. The last novel Dickens completed, and perhaps his most angry, it sounds all the great themes of his later work: the innocence and venality of the aspiring poor, the hollow pretensions of the nouveau riche, the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt everyone it touches. Among those caught up in the ruthless forces of change in Dickens's London are the archetypal innocent Noddy Boffin, who 'inherits' a dustheap where the trash of the rich is thrown; Silas Wegg, a grotesque, one-legged man with unlimited fantasies of grandeur and power; Mr. Veneering, Member of Parliament, whose house, furnishings, servants, carriage, and baby are all 'bran-new'; and Alfred and Sophronia Lammle, who marry one another because each wrongly believes the other is rich. The social themes of Our Mutual Friend--having to do with the treatment of the poor, education, representative government, even the inheritance laws--are informed and brought into coherence by the underlying presence of the Thames, signifying the perpetual flow of life into death, and acting as agent of retribution and regeneration too, as a kind of river god in fact, in a novel in which no other god is very present.
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96 editions First published in 1800
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April 21, 1994, Everyman's Library
Our Mutual Friend (Everyman's Library Classics)
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April 1, 1998, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Our Mutual Friend (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)
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January 5, 1999, Random House Audio
Our Mutual Friend
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January 30, 1999, Audio Book Contractors, Inc.
Our Mutual Friend
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January 30, 1999, Audio Book Contractors, Inc.
Our Mutual Friend
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January 30, 1999, Audio Book Contractors, Inc.
Our Mutual Friend
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July 2001, New Millennium Audio
Our Mutual Friend (Ultimate Classics)
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May 22, 2007, Naxos of America
Our Mutual Friend (The Complete Classics)
Audio CD
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History Created November 4, 2011 · 19 revisions
| November 23, 2012 | Edited by Anand Chitipothu | Reverted spam |
| November 21, 2012 | Edited by 188.190.124.67 | Edited without comment. |
| November 16, 2012 | Edited by BETHANY J COOPER | merge authors |
| November 16, 2012 | Edited by BETHANY J COOPER | merge authors |
| November 4, 2011 | Edited by EdwardBot | remove 'in fiction' subjects |