Our Mutual Friend (Collected Works of Charles Dickens)

by Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend was the last novel Charles Dickens completed and is, arguably, his darkest and most complex. The basic plot is vintage Dickens: an inheritance up for grabs, a murder, a rocky romance or two, plenty of skullduggery, and a host of unforgettable secondary characters. But in this final outing the author's heroes are more flawed, his villains more sympathetic, and the story as a... (read more)

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“Our Mutual Friend” is the Master's most complex, Bosch-like cosmos, where all we encounter seems to be distorted by the light of flickering torches and glowing brimstone. It's a tale of greed, lust, envy…in fact, I’m sure all of the Seven Deadly Sins factor in at some point. It’s a study of contamination, of corruption. No character reaches the final page untainted; it’s only a matter of degree. The Thames snakes through the story like a virus, riddled with corpses; the source of the...

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