Our mutual friend, no. 19-20

Last complete novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. In the opening chapters a body is found in the Thames and identified as that of John Harmon, a young man recently returned to London to receive his inheritance. Were he alive, his father's will would require him to marry Bella Wilfer, a beautiful, mercenary girl whom he had never met. Instead, the money passes to the working-class Boffins, and the effects spread into various corners of London society. Issued monthly from May 1864 to November 1865 in illustrated green paper covers. Chapters 12-17: Chapter 12. The passing shadow -- Chapter 13. Showing how the golden dustman helped to scatter dust -- Chapter 14. Checkmate to the friendly move -- Chapter 15. What was caught in the traps that were set -- Chapter 16. Persons and things in general -- [Chapter 17] Chapter the last. The voice of society

In Collection:

• Victorian Serial Novels Collection

Creator

• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Contributor

• Stone, Marcus, 1840-1921

Subject

• Inheritance and succession
• Social classes
• Social conflict
• Families

Publisher

• London : Chapman and Hall

Language

• eng

Identifier

• Call Number: PR4568 A1 1864

Date created

• November 1865

Relation

•  https://search.library.uvic.ca/permalink/01VIC_INST/71bv5b/alma993944453807291

Resource type

• Text

Source

• University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections, PR4568 A1 1864

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Extent

• 20 volumes in 19

Alternative title

• Book the fourth: A turning

Geographic coverage

• England--London

Coordinates

• 51.50853, -0.12574

Additional physical characteristics

• Illustrations.

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Victorian Serial Novels Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• fiction (general genre)
• books
• serials (publications)
• publications (documents)
• novels

Date digitized

• December 14, 2010

Technical note

• 24 bit color 400 dpi BMP; 24 bit color 150 dpi med quality (5) JPG; scanned 14Dec10-9Mar11 by CDW and SC; metadata by GF and KD.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/0khm-jg23

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

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