Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens
Illustrated by Marcus Stone
Hardback
06 February 2020
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Synopsis
Complete and unabridged.
One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.
Dickens exposes the corrupting power of money in his last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, with its expansive cast of characters and interweaving plots.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts...
Details
06 February 2020
1184 pages
9781529011746
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Reviews
I find it irresistible: the autumn evening closing in, the crazy little boat afloat on the filthy Thames, the strong young woman plying the oars and a ragged, grizzled man, her father, busying himself with something towed in the water behind them. You are some way into the narrative before it dawns on you that it is a drowned body.Shirley Hughes, Independent
Dickens's last completed novel is a marvel of play-acting and posturing, of taking on roles through delusion, calculation and ambitionPhilip Hensher, Guardian