Our Mutual Friend (The World's Classics)

OUR MUTUAL FRIEND was Dickens's last completed novel, and it is perhaps his ultimate vision of a dark, macabre London and the corrupting power of money. Opening with a father and daughter scavenging for corpses on the Thames, the chilling tale unfolds around drownings, disguises and doubles, violence, murder, and triumphant love.Young John Harmon is supposedly killed on a journey back to England. Very much alive, this heir to a dust merchant's fortune goes to work unaer an assumed name for his father's current heirs, the amiable, elderly Boffins - who are about to be blackmailed by the unscrupulous one-legged Wegg.So begins the intrigue in a novel that is quintessential Dickensian in flavor - in its grotesque caricatures, its rich symbolism, and the astonishing realism of its heroine, Bella Wilfer, among Dickens's most splendid woman characters.A sinister masterpiece, OUR MUTUAL FRIEND is Dickens's final great story and an enduring literary treasure.