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Our mutual friend / Charles Dickens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, author.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inheritance and succession--Fiction.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Social conditions.
- England.
- England--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 852 pages).
- Edition:
- New edition / edited and with an introduction and notes by Michael Cotsell.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Following his father's death John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance, but he finds he is eligible only if he marries Bella Wilfur. To observe her character he assumes another identity and secures work with his father's foreman, Mr Boffin, who is also Bella's guardian. Disguise and concealment play an important role in the novel and individual identity is examined within the wider setting of London life: in the 1860s the city was aflame with spiralling financial speculation while thousands of homeless scratched a living from the detritus of the more fortunate-indeed John Harmon's father has amassed his wealth by recycling waste. This edition includes extensive explanatory notes and significant manuscript variants.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 1989.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780191920578
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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