Our Mutual Friend: Charles Dickens (Macmillan Collector's Library) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1529011744 ISBN 13: 9781529011746

Verlag: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2020

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Complete and unabridged.

One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.

Dickens exposes the corrupting power of money in his last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, with its expansive cast of characters and interweaving plots.

Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has an afterword by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley and original illustrations by Marcus Stone.

John Harmon made his fortune collecting ‘dust’. On his death his estranged son is due to inherit his wealth on the condition that he marry Bella Wilfer, a young woman who he has never even met. But when his son is presumed dead, John’s riches pass to his servants Mr. and Mrs. Boffin and they in turn take Bella into their own home. They hire a secretive young man, John Rokesmith, to be Mr. Boffin’s secretary – but what is this man’s real identity and what is his interest in Bella?

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Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth, where his father worked as a clerk. Living in London in 1824, Dickens was sent by his family to work in a blacking-warehouse, and his father was arrested and imprisoned for debt. Fortunes improved and Dickens returned to school, eventually becoming a parliamentary reporter. His first piece of fiction was published by a magazine in December 1832, and by 1836 he had begun his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. He focused his career on writing, completing fourteen highly successful novels, as well as penning journalism, shorter fiction and travel books. He died in 1870.

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Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1529011744
• ISBN 13: 9781529011746
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Stone Marcus
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1184
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