Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Last and one of his critically most acclaimed novels, ‘Our Mutual Friend’ was first published in the year 1865. It is considered to be Dickens’ one of most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. In the opening chapters a body is found in the Thames and identified as that of John Harmon, a young man recently returned to London to receive his inheritance. Were he alive, his father’s will would require him to marry Bella Wilfer, a beautiful, mercenary girl whom he had never met. Instead, the money passes to the working-class Boffins, and the effects spread into various corners of London society.