This book is donated by Peter M. Huska.

Our Mutual Friend, Dickens last novel, gives one of his most comprhensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes. The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who retuns to England as his fathers heir and is thought drowned under suspicious circumstances, a situation conveniant to his wish for anonymity until he can evaluate Bella Wilfer who hemust marry to secure his inheritance. literature, Dickens