OUR MUTUAL FRIEND: Charles Dickens FULL Audio Book: Part 1, 4
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND by Charles Dickens ABOUT THE BOOK: Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 18641865, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller (quoting from the character Bella Wilfer in the book), money, money, money, and what money can make of In the opening chapters a body is found in the Thames and identified as that of 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 whom he had never met. Instead, the money passes to the workingclass Boffins, and the effects spread into various corners of London society. ABOUT THIS CHANNEL: Listen to the best free Audiobooks On this channel, youll find audiobooks of great works of fiction, poetry and nonfiction, by such authors as Twain, T
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