Our mutual friend
- London : Penguin Books, 1998
- xxxiii, 884 p. ; ill., 20 cm
- Penguin classics .
Includes bibliographical references.
Out of the dust-heaps and dirty streets of mid-Victorian London Dickens creates a classic murder-mystery tale. A dead man is fished out of the Thames by a scavenger and his daughter. Who is he, and how did he get there? His death affects members of all levels of a society permeated by greed. Dickens presents an array of characters both touching and humorous from Mr. Boffin, the "Golden" Dustman, to Jenny Wren the lame doll's dress-maker.
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