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  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409062677
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook

Our Mutual Friend




With an exclusive introduction by Peter Ackroyd, these out of print editions are brought back to life with a fresh and timeless new look.

John Harmon is a young man estranged from his family, yet nonetheless on his way from South Africa to London to receive his inheritance -- but, according to his father's will, he can only claim it if he marries Bella Wilfer, a beautiful London girl whom he has never met.

However, before John arrives to claim his birthright, an unknown body is found drowned in the Thames and identified as him. The money passes instead to family servants Mr and Mrs Boffin, who welcome into their home the disappointed bride-to-be. But when their associate Silas Wegg tries to blackmail the Boffins with an alternative will, Bella must decide where her loyalties lie...

  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409062677
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook

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Sanshiro
Love
Annals
Military Dispatches

About the author

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. When Dickens was twelve years old he was send to work in a shoe polish factory because his family had been taken to the debtors' prison. His career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays began to appear in periodicals. The Pickwick Papers, his first commercial success, was published in 1836. The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837. Many other novels followed and The Old Curiosity Shop brought Dickens international fame and he became a celebrity in America as well as Britain. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.

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Praise for Our Mutual Friend

I love all of Dickens

Jo Brand

I would always prefer to go get another Dickens off the shelf than pick up a new book by someone I've not read yet

Donna Tartt

He's a marvellous writer ... He's very, very good

William Trevor