Our Mutual Friend (eBook)

Charles Dickens (Autor)

Adrian Poole (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2004
928 Seiten
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-192029-0 (ISBN)

Infos

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''The great poet of the city. He was created by London' Peter AckroydOur Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees: young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the Thames, and kindly dustman Mr Boffin, to whom the fortune defaults. With brilliant satire, Dickens portrays a dark, macabre London, inhabited by such disparate characters as Gaffer Hexam, scavenging the river for corpses; enchanting, mercenary Bella Wilfer; the social-climbing Veneerings; and the unscrupulous street-trader Silas Wegg. Dickens's last completed novel is richly symbolic in its vision of death and renewal in a city dominated by the fetid Thames, and of the corrupting power of money.Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Adrian Poole

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.1.2004
• Einführung: Adrian Poole
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-14-192029-7 / 0141920297
• ISBN-13: 978-0-14-192029-0 / 9780141920290