Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life" but is also about human values. In the opening chapters a body is found in the Thames and identified as John Harmon, a young man recently returned to London to receive his inheritance. Were he alive, his father's will would require him to marry Bella Wilfer, a beautiful, mercenary girl wh...
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68 - POSTSCRIPT, IN LIEU OF PREFACE
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67 - Book 4 Chap. 17 THE VOICE OF SOCIETY
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66 - Book 4 Chap. 16 PERSONS AND THINGS IN GENERAL
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65 - Book 4 Chap. 15 WHAT WAS CAUGHT IN THE TRAPS THAT WERE SET
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64 - Book 4 Chap. 14 CHECKMATE TO THE FRIENDLY MOVE
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63 - Book 4 Chap. 13 SHOWING HOW THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN HELPED TO SCATTER DUST
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62 - Book 4 Chap. 12 THE PASSING SHADOW
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61 - Book 4 Chap. 11 EFFECT IS GIVEN TO THE DOLLS' DRESSMAKER'S DISCOVERY
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60 - Book 4 Chap. 10 THE DOLLS' DRESSMAKER DISCOVERS A WORD
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59 - Book 4 Chap. 09 TWO PLACES VACATED
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58 - Book 4 Chap. 08 A FEW GRAINS OF PEPPER
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57 - Book 4 Chap. 07 BETTER TO BE ABEL THAN CAIN
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56 - Book 4 Chap. 06 A CRY FOR HELP
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55 - Book 4 Chap. 05 CONCERNING THE MENDICANT'S BRIDE
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54 - Book 4 Chap. 04 A RUNAWAY MATCH
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53 - Book 4 Chap. 03 THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN SINKS AGAIN
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52 - Book 4 Chap. 02 THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN RISES A LITTLE
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51 - Book 4 Chap. 01 SETTING TRAPS
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50 - Book 3 Chap. 17 A SOCIAL CHORUS
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49 - Book 3 Chap. 16 THE FEAST OF THE THREE HOBGOBLINS