{"product_id":"9780140434972","title":"Our Mutual Friend","description":"Author: Dickens, Charles\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780140434972\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 26 Jun 1997\u003cbr\u003ePages: 928 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDickens' last completed novel portraying a dark, macabre London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur 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. \u003cbr\u003eWith 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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48128390201502,"sku":"UBD-9780140434972","price":26.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780140434972.jpg?v=1786540039","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780140434972","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}