Our Mutual Friend Av Charles Dickens

<p><b>One of the BBC''s ''100 Novels That Shaped Our World''</b><br><br>''The great poet of the city. He was created by London'' Peter Ackroyd<br><br><i>Our Mutual Friend</i> 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.<br><br>Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Adrian Poole</p>