Our Mutual Friend: A Fortune Fished from the Thames

· Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by James Tissot, Eduard Hau and Alfred Sisley. A body pulled from the Thames, a will that turns on it, and a dust-heap worth a fortune. Dickens's last completed novel, and the one that looks hardest at what money does to the people handling it. He was carrying the manuscript in a train that fell off a viaduct at Staplehurst; he climbed back into the wrecked carriage to fetch it. Fifty-nine plates by painters including Tissot and Frith follow the river, the ferry and the crowded quayside through Victorian London, the element and the city that carry the story.
Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by James Tissot, Eduard Hau and Alfred Sisley. A body pulled from the Thames, a will that turns on it, and a dust-heap worth a fortune. Dickens's last completed novel, and the one that looks hardest at what money does to the people handling it. He...

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English novelist born in Portsmouth. Sent to work in a blacking factory at twelve when his father was imprisoned for debt, he became the most widely read author of his century. His works include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English novelist born in Portsmouth. Sent to work in a blacking factory at twelve when his father was imprisoned for debt, he became the most widely read author of his century. His works include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, a...

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