Our Mutual Friend - Couverture souple

Dickens, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140434976 ISBN 13 : 9780140434972

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1997

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140434976
• ISBN 13: 9780140434972
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 928
• Éditeur: Poole Adrian
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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