| Our Mutual Friend: Introduction by Andrew Sanders Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author), Sanders, Andrew (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0679420282 ISBN-13: 9780679420286 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $27.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 1994 Annotation: 'Our Mutual Friend' is crammed with narratives of concealment and mistaken identity, of murder and attempted murder, of sin and redemption, and is continually propelled by a satiric impulse and a theatricality almost surreal in their power. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 93081033 |
| Lexile Measure: 1090 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 5.2" W x 8.2" (1.80 lbs) 880 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 60412 Reading Level: 8.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 61.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When John Harmon--who has been left a fortune if he will marry the girl his miserly father chose for him--is found floating dead in the Thames, he sets in motion a story overflowing with cases of deception and mistaken identity, of murder and attempted murder, of sin and redemption. The influence of the notorious Harmon inheritance ripples through a large cast of vividly drawn characters from every level of society, including Noddy Boffin, known as "the Golden Dustman"; the one-legged villain Silas Wegg; willful Bella Wilfer; saintly Lizzie Hexam; the sharp-witted doll's dressmaker Jenny Wren; the social-climbing Veneerings; the ruthless speculator Fascination Fledgeby; and the river-scavenging corpse robbers Gaffer Hexam and Rogue Riderhood. Out of this flurry of invention Dickens creates in Our Mutual Friend a portrait of a city and a civilization that is at once indignant, compassionate, and utterly unforgettable. Charles Dickens's last completed novel features one of his most surreal and haunting visions of London, shadowed by towering dust heaps that supply the corrupting riches at the heart of the plot and washed by the dark river that winds its way insistently through the story. This edition reprints the original Everyman's preface by G. K. Chesterton and features forty illustrations by Marcus Stone. |