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Our Mutual Friend

Author:
Charles Dickens
Read by:
Simon Vance
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Ratings
Book
7
Narrator
3
Release Date
January 1, 2006
Duration
32 hours 0 minutes
Summary
This sinister masterpiece was Dickens’ last completed novel and perhaps his ultimate vision of a dark, macabre London and the corrupting power of money. Opening with a father and daughter scavenging for corpses on the Thames, this chilling tale unfolds around drownings, disguises and doubles, violence, murder, and triumphant love.

Young John Harmon, presumed killed on his return home to England, is very much alive. The heir to a dust merchant’s fortune, he goes to work under an assumed name for his father’s current heirs, the amiable, elderly Boffins—who are about to be blackmailed by the unscrupulous one-legged Wegg.

So begins the intrigue in a novel that is quintessentially Dickensian in flavor—in its grotesque caricatures, its rich symbolism, and in the astonishing realism of its heroine, Bella Wilfer, one of Dickens’ most splendid female characters.
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Profile Avatar Joanne G. Oct 2023

I really enjoyed this book, wonderfully narrated by Simon Vance. It has a great cast of memorable characters and is quite a complicated story with an interesting cast of characters and a twist that I didn’t anticipate. It’s around 30 hours long and I had marathon sessions of listening because I always wanted to know what happened next

Profile Avatar Robert B. Aug 2018

A complex but entertaining tale by a great writer acted as well as narrated by the brilliant Simon Vance. Loved it.

Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend

Author: Charles Dickens
Read by: Simon Vance
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