Our Mutual Friend (Everyman's Library Classics S.) [Import] [Hardcover]

Charles Dickens (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 21, 1994 | Series: Everyman's Library Classics S.

In this, his final completed novel, Dickens weaves together many stories, uniting them in the symbolism of the wealth which derives from a rubbish tip.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 960 pages
• Publisher: Everyman's Library (April 21, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1857151607
• ISBN-13: 978-1857151602
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1.8 x 8.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,728,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

One of the grand masters of Victorian literature, Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors' prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and "slave" factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years' formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

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This review is from: Our Mutual Friend (Everyman's Library Classics S.) (Hardcover)

Like Shakespeare, it's very hard to compare him to anyone but himself.

And this is not his best: uneven, rushed in spots, a few plot pot holes that jar rather badly.

But it's not his worse by any means, either: it has an admirable clarity, the social commentary is pointed but not [too] preachy, and each person in the huge cast of characters is wonderfully individual.

There are some signs of his degenerating health if you are looking for them, yet the overall effect for me was fresh and funny, a fine English farce as only he could create.