Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens

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"Our Mutual Friend" by Charles Dickens is a novel published in 1864–1865. Dickens's final completed work centers on money and its power to shape lives. When heir John Harmon is presumed dead, beautiful Bella Wilfer loses her arranged marriage and fortune. Meanwhile, the illiterate Boffins suddenly inherit wealth, and the Hexam siblings struggle to escape poverty.

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Topics: Deception -- Fiction · Inheritance and succession -- Fiction · London (England) -- Fiction · Love stories · Poor families -- Fiction · Satire