Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:255341663
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens S Our Mutual Friend
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Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend
Sean Grass
Author : Sean Grass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317168218
Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend by Sean Grass Pdf
Even within the context of Charles Dickens's history as a publishing innovator, Our Mutual Friend is notable for what it reveals about Dickens as an author and about Victorian publishing. Marking Dickens's return to the monthly number format after nearly a decade of writing fiction designed for weekly publication in All the Year Round, Our Mutual Friend emerged against the backdrop of his failing health, troubled relationship with Ellen Ternan, and declining reputation among contemporary critics. In his subtly argued publishing history, Sean Grass shows how these difficulties combined to make Our Mutual Friend an extraordinarily odd novel, no less in its contents and unusually heavy revisions than in its marketing by Chapman and Hall, its transformation from a serial into British and U.S. book editions, its contemporary reception by readers and reviewers, and its delightfully uneven reputation among critics in the 150 years since Dickens’s death. Enhanced by four appendices that offer contemporary accounts of the Staplehurst railway accident, information on archival materials, transcripts of all of the contemporary reviews, and a select bibliography of editions, Grass’s book shows why this last of Dickens’s finished novels continues to intrigue its readers and critics.
The Companion to Our Mutual Friend (RLE Dickens)
Michael Cotsell
Author : Michael Cotsell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781135027650
The Companion to Our Mutual Friend (RLE Dickens) by Michael Cotsell Pdf
Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) Dickens’ last completed novel, has been critically praised as a profound and troubled masterpiece, and yet is has received far less scholarly attention than his other major works. This volume is the first book-length study of the novel. It explores every aspect of Dickens’ sustained imaginative involvement with his age. In particular its original research into hitherto neglected sources reveals not only Dickens’ reactions to the important developments during the 1860s in education, finance and the administration of poverty, but also his interest in phenomena as diverse as waste collection and the Shakespeare tercentenary. The Companion to Our Mutual Friend demonstrates the varied resources of artistry that inform the novel, and it provides the reader with a fundamental source of information about one of Dickens’ most complex works.
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074966569
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Pdf
Our Mutual Friend illustrated
Charles Dickens
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 1061 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783985940998
Our Mutual Friend illustrated by Charles Dickens Pdf
Our Mutual Friend illustrated Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 186465, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, quoting from the character Bella Wilfer in the book, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life."[1]Most reviewers in the 1860s continued to praise Dickens' skill as a writer in general, though not reviewing this novel in detail. Some found the plot too complex, and not well laid out.[2] The Times of London found the first few chapters did not draw the reader into the characters. However, in the 20th century reviewers have found much to approve in the later novels of Dickens, including Our Mutual Friend.[3] In the late 20th and early 21st century, some reviewers suggested that Dickens was experimenting with structure,[4][5] and that the characters considered somewhat flat and not recognized by the contemporary reviewers[6] were true representations of the Victorian working class and key to understanding the structure of the society depicted by Dickens in this novel.
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Sheba Blake Publishing
Page : 1412 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783961895151
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Pdf
Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864–65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller (quoting from the character Bella Wilfer in the book), "money, money, money, and what money can make of life." In the opening chapters a body is found in the Thames and identified as that of John Harmon, a young man recently returned to London to receive his inheritance. Were he alive, his father's will would require him to marry Bella Wilfer, a beautiful, mercenary girl whom he had never met. Instead, the money passes to the working-class Boffins, and the effects spread into various corners of London society. Having made his fortune from London's rubbish, a rich misanthropic miser dies, estranged from all except his faithful employees Mr and Mrs Boffin. By his will, his fortune goes to his estranged son John Harmon, who is to return from where he has settled abroad (possibly in South Africa) to claim it, on condition that he marries a woman he has never met, Miss Bella Wilfer. The implementation of the will is in the charge of the solicitor, Mortimer Lightwood, who has no other practice. Before the son and heir can claim his inheritance, he goes missing, presumed drowned, at the end of his journey back to London. A body is found in the Thames by Gaffer Hexam, a waterman who makes his living by retrieving corpses and robbing them of valuables, before handing them over to the authorities. Papers in the pockets of the drowned man identify him as the heir, John Harmon. Present at the identification is a mysterious young man, who gives his name as Julius Handford and then disappears. By the terms of the miser's will, the whole estate then devolves upon Mr and Mrs Boffin, naïve and good-hearted people who wish to enjoy it for themselves and to share it with others.
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Charles Dickens
Author : Charles Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1521909660
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Charles Dickens Pdf
How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 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 River 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. The novel is richly symbolic in its vision of death and renewal in a city dominated by the fetid Thames, and the corrupting power of money. Our Mutual Friend uses text of the first volume edition of 1865 and includes original illustrations, a chronology and revised further reading. As Adrian Poole writes in his introduction to this new edition, 'In its vast scope and perilous ambitions it has much in common with Bleak House and Little Dorrit, but its manner is more stealthy, on edge, enigmatic.'
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
CHARLES DICKENS
Author : CHARLES DICKENS
Publisher : PURE SNOW PUBLISHING
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND by CHARLES DICKENS Pdf
CHARLES DICKENS – OUR MUTUAL FRIEND Key features of this book: - A biographical sketch of the author with sketch illustrations - Original illustrations included - As an added bonus we have included the short story The Signal Man by Charles Dickens. - A complete list of novels and novellas written by the author (listed in order of initial publication) - Available two formats: eBook and paperback with an Easy-to-read 12 pt. font size - Proper paragraph formatting with Indented first lines, 1.25 Line Spacing and Justified Paragraphs - Due to the vast size of this novel, the paperback book version size is a large 8.5” x 11” and nearly 600 pages. - Custom Table of Contents and Design elements for each chapter - The Copyright page has been placed at the end of the book, as to not impede the content and flow of the book. Our Mutual Friend is the 19TH and final novel written by Charles Dickens and completed during his lifetime. This book is complete, unabridged and was originally published in 1864. This book is properly formatted for aesthetics and ease of reading. This book is great for teachers and students or for the casual reader. This book is the perfect addition to any classic literary library. At Pure Snow Publishing we have taken the time and care into formatting this book to make it the best possible reading experience. Enjoy!
Our Mutual Friend (Annotated)
Charles Dickens
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798732375831
Our Mutual Friend (Annotated) by Charles Dickens Pdf
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Our common friend (in original English, Our Mutual Friend) is the latest complete novel by the English writer Charles Dickens, published in installments between 1864 and 1865. In many ways, it is one of his most sophisticated and complex works, combining a great depth Psychological with a rich social analysis. At first glance, it seems to focus, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, on money, money, money, and what money can make of life (which is a quote from the novel itself, from Bella, at the end of Book III, chapter IV), but a deeper analysis shows that, above all, it focuses on human values and their application in Victorian society. For many critics and writers such as Italo Calvino, the novel is an absolute masterpiece, in which Dickens, pessimistic and already mature, demonstrates the full force of his prose and inventiveness in an authentic exercise of literary virtuosity.In the initial chapter, a young man goes to London to receive the paternal inheritance, which, according to his father's will, can only receive it if he marries Bella Wilfer, a beautiful young woman but whom he has never met . However, before arriving, a corpse is discovered floating on the River Thames, and the police identify him as his own, so that he is considered dead. The inheritance then passes to Boffins, his father's uneducated worker - he cannot read - and the effects of this extend to all extremes of London society.John Harmon - heir to the Harmon family property, but on the condition that he marry Bella Wilfer, allegedly killed during most of the novel, in fact lives under the name of John Rokesmith and works as a secretary for the Boffin, in order to know better the reaction of Bella, the Boffin and the people in general to his "death." He also used the name of Julius Handford, on his first return to London.
The Mutual Friend
Frederick Busch
Author : Frederick Busch
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811212580
The Mutual Friend by Frederick Busch Pdf
The subject of Frederick Busch's extraordinary fiction, The Mutual Friend, is Charles Dickens. First published in 1978, Busch's portrait of the Chief (or the Inimitable, as Dickens calls himself) was immediately hailed as a lively, accurate, and brilliantly imagined novel of the great Victorian and his age. Busch's guide to Dickens' world is George Dolby, the Chief's factotum in his last years. The reminiscence begins with the Great American Tour of 1867-68, Dickens is ill and crotchety but ever eager to dazzle the New World with his dramatic readings. Through Dolby we come to a circle of characters around Dickens, among them his long-suffering wife Kate and the actress Ellen Ternan, mistress to the Inimitable. Of Busch's compelling mastery over his larger-than-life subject, the English critic Angus Wilson writes, "Mr. Busch gives us Dickens in all his genius and makes us understand how that genius worked."
The Works of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:799459769
The Works of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens Pdf
Our Mutual Friend (Annotated and Illustrated)
Charles Dickens
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 197688053X
Our Mutual Friend (Annotated and Illustrated) by Charles Dickens Pdf
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864-65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life", but is also about human values. In the opening chapters a body is found in the Thames and identified as that of John Harmon, a young man recently returned to London to receive his inheritance. Were he alive, his father's will would require him to marry Bella Wilfer, a beautiful, mercenary girl whom he had never met. Instead, the money passes to the working-class Boffins, and the effects spread into various corners of London society.
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1318539153
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Pdf
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Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783849643065
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Pdf
"In these times of ours," are the opening words of this book, which was published in England in 1864-65. The scene is laid in London and its immediate neighborhood. All the elaborate machinery dear to Dickens's heart is here introduced. There is the central story of Our Mutual Friend, himself the young heir to the vast Harmon estate, who buries his identity and assumes the name of John Rokesmith, that he may form his own judgment of the young woman whom he must marry in order to claim his fortune; there is the other story of the poor bargeman's daughter, and her love for reckless Eugene Wrayburn, the idol of society; and uniting these two threads is the history of Mr. and Mrs. Boffin, the ignorant, kindhearted couple, whose innocent ambitions, and benevolent use of the money intrusted to their care, afford the author opportunity for the humor and pathos of which he was a master. Among the characters which this story has made famous are Miss Jenny Wren, the doll's dressmaker, a little, crippled creature whose love for Lizzie Hexam transforms her miserable life; Bradley Headstone, the schoolmaster, suffering torments because of his jealousy of Eugene Wrayburn, and helpless under the careless contempt of that trained adversary— dying at last in an agony of defeat at his failure to kill Eugene; and the triumph of Lizzie's love over the social difference between her and her lover; Bella Wilfer, "the boofer lady," cured of her longing for riches and made John Harmon's happy wife by the plots and plans of the Golden Dustman ...
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1341253961
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Pdf
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