- Social life and customs, Classic Literature, Deception, Poor families
*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.
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Prestige, classical in form, meticulous and ironic.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- First published
- 1868
- Pages
- 796
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons, W. Heffer & Sons, John W. Lovell Co.
- Editions
- 318
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, French, und
- ISBN
- 9798836892296
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“IN these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between South Bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in.”
Charles Dickens, was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most iconic characters, with the theme of social reform running throughout his work. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
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