Our Mutual Friend

Name: Our Mutual Friend
Brand: Pan Macmillan
SKU: 9781529011746
Price: 15.73 EUR
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English

By (author): Charles Dickens

Illustrated by: Marcus Stone

Complete and unabridged.

One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.

Dickens exposes the corrupting power of money in his last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, with its expansive cast of characters and interweaving plots.

Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has an afterword by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley and original illustrations by Marcus Stone.

John Harmon made his fortune collecting dust. On his death his estranged son is due to inherit his wealth on the condition that he marry Bella Wilfer, a young woman who he has never even met. But when his son is presumed dead, Johns riches pass to his servants Mr. and Mrs. Boffin and they in turn take Bella into their own home. They hire a secretive young man, John Rokesmith, to be Mr. Boffins secretary but what is this mans real identity and what is his interest in Bella?

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Product Details

Weight: 548g
Dimensions: 108 x 158mm
Publication Date: 06 Feb 2020
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781529011746

About Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father worked as a clerk. Living in London in 1824 Dickens was sent by his family to work in a blacking warehouse and his father was arrested and imprisoned for debt. Fortunes improved and Dickens returned to school eventually becoming a parliamentary reporter. His first piece of fiction was published by a magazine in December 1832 and by 1836 he had begun his first novel The Pickwick Papers. He focused his career on writing completing fourteen highly successful novels including Great Expectations Oliver Twist and Bleak House as well as penning journalism shorter fiction and travel books. He died in 1870.