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  1. When the novel opens, the river offers both life and death. In a surreal, night scene, Gaffer Hexam is shown making his living from the bodies he finds in the river. During the course of the novel ...

  2. Published in 1864 and 1865, Our Mutual Friend is Charles Dickens' last completed novel—and it shows. When you start reading this novel, you might wonder what happened to the idealistic, sentimental Dickens who wrote Oliver Twist. The early chapters of Our Mutual Friend are jaded, bitter, and sarcastic, and it's tough to find anyone in the ...

  3. 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.

  4. our mutual friend page 01. our mutual friend. charles dickens. contents. book the first. the cup and the lip. 1. on the look out 2. the man from somewhere 3. another man 4. the r. wilfer family 5. boffin's bower 6. cut adrift 7. mr wegg looks after himself 8. mr boffin in consultation 9. mr and mrs boffin in consultation 10. a marriage contract ...

  5. Our Mutual Friend. Charles Dickens. OUP Oxford, Nov 13, 2008 - Fiction - 852 pages. Following his father's death John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance, but he finds he is eligible only if he marries Bella Wilfur. To observe her character he assumes another identity and secures work with his father's foreman, Mr Boffin, who is ...

  6. Season 1 Episode 2 - Episode 2. 1998 · 1 hr 34 min. TV-PG. Drama · Romance. Self-righteous schoolmaster Bradley Headstone approaches Lizzie Hexham through her brother Charley. Subtitles: English. Starring: Paul McGann Dominic Mafham David Bradley Anna Friel Peter Vaughan. Directed by: Julian Farino.

  7. MUTUAL FRIEND definition: 1. a person who is the friend of two people who may or may not know each other: 2. a person who is…. Learn more.

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