Category:
Adults,
Classic,
Historical Fiction,
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19th Century Charles Dickens Historical FictionWritten by Charles Dickens
Read by Meera Syal, Lucinda Hawksley
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Length: 34 hrs and 57 mins
Files: MP3, chapters
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Charles Dickens’s last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend is a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian society.
Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon’s profitable dust heaps - and its legatees, young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the River Thames, and kindly dustman Mr Boffin, to whom the fortune defaults.
With brilliant satire, Dickens portrays a dark, macabre London, inhabited by such disparate characters as Gaffer Hexam, scavenging the river for corpses; enchanting, mercenary Bella Wilfer; the social-climbing Veneerings; and the unscrupulous street-trader Silas Wegg. The novel is richly symbolic in its vision of death and renewal in a city dominated by the fetid Thames, and the corrupting power of money.
Features expert narration by Meera Syal and an exclusive introduction written and read by Lucinda Hawksley, great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. Hawksley is a biographer, author and lecturer whose wealth of knowledge on Dickens is both research-led and personal. She introduces us to the themes in Our Mutual Friend and tells us how they connect to the life of Dickens himself.
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