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Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend

(Autor)

Adrian Poole (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
928 Seiten
1997
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-043497-2 (ISBN)
CHF 16,90 inkl. MwSt
Tells a story spanning all levels of Victorian society. This book centre's 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 River Thames, and kindly dustman Mr Boffin, to whom the fortune defaults.
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'

'The great poet of the city. He was created by London' Peter Ackroyd

Our 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

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenal success of his PICKWICK PAPERS. He held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years. Adrian Poole is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.6.1997
Reihe/Serie Penguin Classics
Einführung Adrian Poole
Mitarbeit Anmerkungen: Adrian Poole
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 628 g
Themenwelt Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10 0-14-043497-6 / 0140434976
ISBN-13 978-0-14-043497-2 / 9780140434972
Zustand Neuware
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