Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens

OurMutual Friend

CharlesDickens

Format: Kitap

Barkod: 9780140434972

Cilt Durumu: Ciltsiz

Ürün Tanıtımı

OurMutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps -and its legatees, young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled outof the River Thames, and kindly dustman Mr Boffin, to whom the fortunedefaults. With brilliant satire, Dickens portrays a dark, macabre London,inhabited by such disparate characters as Gaffer Hexam, scavenging the riverfor corpses; enchanting, mercenary Bella Wilfer; the social-climbingVeneerings; and the unscrupulous street-trader Silas Wegg. The novel is richlysymbolic in its vision of death and renewal in a city dominated by the fetidThames, and the corrupting power of money. Our Mutual Friend uses text of thefirst volume edition of 1865 and includes original illustrations, a chronologyand revised further reading. As Adrian Poole writes in his introduction to thisnew edition, 'In its vast scope and perilous ambitions it has much in commonwith Bleak House and Little Dorrit, but its manner is more stealthy, on edge,enigmatic.'

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Özellikler

Basım Dili: İngilizce

Sayfa Sayısı: 928

En / Boy: 13,00 x 19,00 cm

Kağıt Cinsi: 2.Hamur

BasımTarihi: 1998