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Jan 29, 2004 · Our Mutual Friend. Charles Dickens. Penguin UK, Jan 29, 2004 - Fiction - 928 pages. One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. 'The great poet of the city. He was created by London' Peter Ackroyd. Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees: young John Harmon, presumed drowned ...
Lizzie Hexam. Lizzie is the daughter of Gaffer Hexam, and the sister of Charley. She is pursued by both Wrayburn and Headstone; although she loves the former, she is concerned with the gap in their social class and education. Throughout the novel, Lizzie shows integrity, kindness, and bravery, and she is rewarded at the end of the plot with a ...
Mar 7, 2020 · Dickens sometimes refers to Gaffer as “the bird of prey” in Our Mutual Friend. Gaffer works as a waterman who makes his living by finding and retrieving dead bodies from the Thames. He is the one who finds the body identified as John Harmon. Lizzie Hexam is the daughter of Gaffer Hexam and the sister of Charley Hexam.
Our Mutual Friend. Home. Episodes. Epic Charles Dickens tale of passion, greed and betrayal. Lizzie and her father scrape a living on the banks of the Thames until one day they recover a body that ...
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. Our Mutual Friend marks a happy return to the earlier manner of Dickens at the end of Dickens's life. One might call it a sort of Indian summer of his farce. Those who most truly love Dickens love the earlier Dickens; and any return to his farce must be welcomed, like a young man come back from the dead.
The novel opens in London on an autumn evening. Gaffer Hexam and his daughter Lizzie are sailing aboard a small, run-down boat on the River Thames. Lizzie seems distressed by their task, but helps to sail and steer the boat as her father completes his task: retrieving a corpse from the river and pocketing the money found on the body.
Jan 1, 2006 · Our Mutual Friend Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Satire Subject: London (England) -- Fiction Subject: Inheritance and succession -- Fiction Subject: Love stories Subject: Poor families -- Fiction Subject: Social classes -- Fiction Subject: Deception -- Fiction Category: Sound: EBook-No ...
