Our Mutual Friend

by Keith Hale (Other), Charles Dickens

Overview

The New York Times said of Our Mutual Friend, the last novel completed by Dickens, that for most readers it would "be considered his best." While expressing all the humanism and humor of Dickens's early work, Our Mutual Friend is also the author's most modern novel and one of his most sophisticated. The book's themes include the search for identity, the extravagance of wealth, and the dispersal of self, but at the heart of the novel, as with all of Dickens's best works, are the characters. Both thoughtful and whimsical, and at times uproariously funny, this novel is a must for Dickens readers.

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940150369825
Publisher:	Watersgreen House
Publication date:	04/07/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	514
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Keith Hale grew up in central Arkansas and Waco, Texas. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Following a five-year career as a journalist in Austin, Amsterdam, and Little Rock, Hale earned a Ph.D. in literature from Purdue and took a position teaching British and Philippine literature at the University of Guam. Hale writes both fiction and scholarly works including his groundbreaking novel Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada (Cody), first published in the Netherlands, and Friends and Apostles, his edition of Rupert Brooke's letters published by Yale University Press, London.

Editorial Reviews

Mr Dickens stands in need of no allowance on the score of having out-written himself. His fancy, his pathos, his humour, his wonderful powers of observation, his picturesqueness, and his versatility, are as remarkable now as they were twenty years ago.

London Review - Anonymous Review

Like David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend is about the relationship between work and the realization of self, about the necessity to be 'useful' before one can be 'happy.' Like Great Expectations, it is about the power of money to corrupt those who place their faith in its absolute value. ... Like all of Dickens's novels, and especially the later ones, it is about pervasive social problems--poverty, disease, class bitterness, the sheer ugliness and vacuity of contemporary life.

Article - Nancy Aycock Metz

One of the best of even Dickens's tales.

The Times of London - E.S. Dallas