Our Mutual Friend

  • Our Mutual Friend is novel set in London about greed, murder, and just have far people will go for a large inheritance.
  • Plot Synopsis

    The main plot centers around John Harmon, who returns to England after many years abroad, having been promised a great inheritance by his father if he marries the beautiful but materialistic Bella Wilfer. A body is found in the Thames River], assumed to be Harmon, as he was believed to have been murdered. However, Harmon tells Noone he is indeed alive. He assumes the name of John Rokesmith, and takes a job with Mr. Boffin, a former employee of his father, who is now heir to his father's fortune. As the Boffins have now taken in Bella, his former bride-to-be, he wishes to learn all he can about her true character.

  • Critical Reception

    Though the book was poorly reviewed at the time, it has been treated far more kindly by contemporary critics, and is considered a great work of his later period.

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