Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens
Illustrated by Marcus Stone
Hardback
06 February 2020Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Synopsis
A powerful exploration of wealth, corruption, and the ties that bind in Victorian London.
Our Mutual Friend, one of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World, showcases Dickens's mastery of social commentary and intricate plotting. This complete and unabridged edition from Macmillan Collector's Library features stunning cloth binding, gold foiled edges, a ribbon marker, and original illustrations by Marcus Stone. An...
1184 pages
9781529011746Details
06 February 20201184 pages
9781529011746Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Reviews
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
Dickens's last completed novel is a marvel of play-acting and posturing, of taking on roles through delusion, calculation and ambitionPhilip Hensher, Guardian
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