Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend is a satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1865. The story revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights “Noddy” Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk who becomes “the Golden Dustman.” Charles Dickens’s last complete novel, Our Mutu...