Synopsis
A Radio 4 dramatization, first broadcast in 1984, of Dickens's last completed novel. Conveying the murky grimness of Victorian London and the dankness of Thames-side low life, it is a satire on wealth and its corrupting power, symbolized by the inheritance of a dust-heap.
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Quatrième de couverture
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NICK HORNBY
'Perhaps his greatest work. The great novel of London: dark, wise, unsentimental' William Boyd
John Harmon is returning to England after long years in exile to claim his inheritance: a great fortune and a beautiful young woman to whom he is betrothed, but has never met. When Harmon's body is pulled out of the Thames, all of London is fascinated by the mystery of the murdered man and his unclaimed riches. Scavengers in the city's murky underworld and social climbers at Mr and Mrs Veneering's fashionable dinner table, lawyers and teachers, a money-lender and a dolls-dressmaker, men and women both honest and villainous, will all become embroiled in this tale of love and obsession, death and rebirth.
See also: A Tale of Two Cities
Présentation de l'éditeur
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights “Noddy” Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk who becomes “the Golden Dustman.” Charles Dickens’s last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend encompasses the great themes of his earlier works: the pretensions of the nouveaux riches, the ingenuousness of the aspiring poor, and the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt all who crave it. With its flavorful cast of characters and numerous subplots, Our Mutual Friend is one of Dickens’s most complex—and satisfying—novels.
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