SUMMARY: A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heapβs expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to n
A Mutual Friend
β Scribed by Layla Wolfe
- Publisher
- Quicksilver Books
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 537 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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It is impossible to overstate the importance of British novelist CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) not only to literature in the English language, but to Western civilization on the whole. He is arguably the first fiction writer to have become an international celebrity. He popularized episodic fiction an
SUMMARY: A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heapβs expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to n
'Has a dead man any use for money? ... What world does money belong to? This world. How can money be a corpse's?' Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance β Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps β and its legatees, young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the River Thames, a
SUMMARY: A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heaps expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to
Dickens' last completed novel traces John Harmon's covert observation of Bella Wilfer, whom he must marry if he is to inherit a fortune.