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by Charles Dickens (Author), E.Salter Davies (Introduction) "IN THESE TIMES OF OURS, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 850 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press; Reissue edition (31 Dec 1952)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192545108
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192545107
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.7 x 4.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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Dickens' last completed novel traces John Harmon's covert observation of Bella Wilfer, whom he must marry if he is to inherit a fortune. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Well, if, like me you've been struggling to come to terms with your rampant imagination and like the idea of dead bodies floating in the River Thames, or chunks of dead bodies preserved in glass bottles, well then, I suppose this little number is just for you. Give it a try. Charles. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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IN THESE TIMES OF OURS, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark Bridge, which is of iron, and London Bridge, which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in. Read the first page
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Dazzling!, 12 April 2007
By Rufusred (Madrid, Spain) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Our Mutual Friend (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
I was quite simply dazzled by this book and zoomed my way through it in a few days. I wanted more, even after this race through its nearly 900 pages, taken in by the breathtaking scope not only to be found in the diversity and credibilty of even the most eccentric characterisations, such as Wegg or Podsnap, something only to be expected from Dickens, but by the moral flux of so many situations and in the thoughts of the likes of Mrs. Lammle or Bella Wilfer. The cruel satire encarnated in the figure Mrs. Wilfer alone had me laughing out loud and the Society scenes around the Veneering's table are so marvellously observed that they had me wondering how on earth Dickens could have had a friend left in Victorian 'polite society'! Brilliant. The river-shore scenes are amongst the most wonderfully atmospheric I've come across in his work: one wonders again what manner of 'field work' Dickens did to to depict this strangely amphibious half-world and it's population. The tone of the prose, too, was in marked contrast to the only very slightly earlier Great Expectations; greater in breadth of style and scale, with far sharper social criticism and biting humour. In fact, it's the humour, and its very darkness, which I felt most stood out in this tour-de-force. Yes, it's a whopping great book: yes it might take you time to get through, and yes again, the very wealth of its style, the range of personalities, settings, motives and dilemas will inevitably mean that one's attention becomes selective. Yet this only means the challenge is greater and, for this reader anyway, the rewards higher. I really loved it, and would encouarge anyone who's enjoyed a Dickens to have a bash.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gruesome Masterpiece, 15 Feb 2001
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Dickens at his darkest best. The later books lean dangerously towards gloom and despair with Dicken's basic philanthropy put to the test. The villain of the piece is modern industrial society which reduces humans to body parts (like machines). In a Hieronymous Bosch-like landscape, black and bleak, Dickens' brilliant characters act out (sometimes comic) roles over which they have seemingly no control and the novel is a cliffhanger whose outcome hangs in the balance. Along with Bleak House and Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend is a must-read of classic English Literature.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, 9 Jan 2003
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Jenny Wren, the crippled doll's dressmaker, who knows everyone's "tricks and manners", Wegg, the one-legged sheet-music salesman, the Veneerings, who are all veneer, Mr Venus, the anatomical craftsman who makes skeletons and keeps Hindoo babies in jars, Boffin, the upwardly mobile manservant who has come into "dust", Sloppy "who do the policemen in different voices", Fascination Fledgeby and Bradley Headstone, the homicidal schoolteacher; I defy anybody to study the cast of characters and not want to read the book. And with the characters comes a very entertaining and well-worked plot.
I have to say I approached this book with some trepidation, and there were certainly longuers - Lizzie Hexham is unutterably boring and I wondered why Bella Wilfer didn't batter Boffin and divorce her husband for all the deceptions they concocted against her - but it was immensely entertaining, a real relief from the everyday.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Mixed Review
First, you certainly get a lot of pages for the money!!!
Parts of it were absolutely brilliant, such as the atmsopheric opening, and some of the individual story-lines... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Lady Cordelia

5.0 out of 5 stars Dickens' Night Vision!
The figures in this boat were those of a strong man with ragged
grizzled hair and a sun-browned face, and a dark girl of nineteen or
twenty, sufficiently like him to... Read more
Published 10 months ago by J. S. Lewison

4.0 out of 5 stars Not an easy read but ultimately worthwhile
This was the first Dickens novel I read that I found myself harking back to my initial misgivings about the author. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Sibby the Cat

5.0 out of 5 stars Darkly brilliant
A rich panorama of London life in the 19th century, this is one of the finest novels ever written. Henry James called Dickens' novels 'loose, baggy monsters', but this is... Read more
Published 15 months ago by William Podmore

5.0 out of 5 stars A timeless classic
A previous reviewer, Rufusred, is spot on with his comments about this book.

This is my favourite Dickens' novel. Read more
Published on 19 Jun 2007 by Paul Hunter

3.0 out of 5 stars Verbose, baggy and inappropriately comic.
I've rated Dickens's last finished novel a three for its skill, coherence, imaginative characters, enormity of scope, and the haunting brilliance of some of its scenes and... Read more
Published on 30 May 2007 by Greshon

3.0 out of 5 stars Well, I got through it.
It has taken me months to read Our Mutual Friend, alternatively gripped by the excellent passages on the river, the hidden identities and the madness of the schoolteacher... Read more
Published on 23 Feb 2007 by T. G. Fish

2.0 out of 5 stars I gave up
Despite being an avid Dickens fan (or so I thought) I have to confess that I gave up about one third of the way through this book, the only Dickens - so far - which I have failed... Read more
Published on 26 Jun 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars A Startling Vision
There are at least half a dozen moments in Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend, the last book the great master was to complete before his death, when it becomes clear to the reader... Read more
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