Our Mutual Friend

With an Introduction and Notes by Deborah Wyne Chester College

Illustrated by Marcus Stone

Our Mutual Friend Dickens'last novel gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society.Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes. the chief of its several plot on John Harmon who return to England as his fathers heir. He is believed drowned unde suspicious circumstances- a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity until he can evaluete Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheriritance.The story is fillede with colourful characters and imcidents the faded aristocrats and parvenus gathered at the Veneering's dinner table , Betty Higden and her terror of the workhouse and the greedy plottings of Sila Wegg.