Physical description

Our Mutual Friend.
Author: Charles Dickens.
Publisher: Nelson & Sons, London.
Date: 1900. (See note section this document for more information on Edition).
Red cloth hardcover with green patterned paper stick on title to front cover. Spine has gold lettering. The spine has a Library label and no Volume information.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on the spine with typed text PAT. FIC. DIC
Front fly cover has Title and Publisher Details.
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Summary

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was one of the great English novelists of the Victorian era, famous for vivid characters, social criticism, and stories that were first published in serial form. He began as a journalist, rose to enormous popularity during his lifetime, and wrote major works such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.
“Our Mutual Friend” is Charles Dickens’s final completed novel, and it’s a dark social satire about money, greed, inheritance, identity, and moral redemption in Victorian London. The plot begins with an apparent drowning, a dust heap fortune, and a marriage condition in a will. It then expands into a tangled set of stories involving the river Thames, corrupt social climbers, and several characters who are tested and changed by wealth.