{"product_id":"our-mutual-friend-charles-dickens-9781470824808","title":"Our Mutual Friend","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis sinister masterpiece was Dickens' last completed novel and perhaps his ultimate vision of a dark, macabre London and the corrupting power of money. Opening with a father and daughter scavenging for corpses on the Thames, this chilling tale unfolds around drownings, disguises and doubles, violence, murder, and triumphant love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoung John Harmon, presumed killed on his return home to England, is very much alive. The heir to a dust merchant's fortune, he goes to work under an assumed name for his father's current heirs, the amiable, elderly Boffins--who are about to be blackmailed by the unscrupulous one-legged Wegg.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins the intrigue in a novel that is quintessentially Dickensian in flavor--in its grotesque caricatures, its rich symbolism, and in the astonishing realism of its heroine, Bella Wilfer, one of Dickens' most splendid female characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Dickens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1470824809\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781470824808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blackstone Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD","brand":"Charles Dickens","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":48458573938943,"sku":"9781470824808","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d384d49c-bd64-4435-9ab5-992d5a9ae722.jpg?v=1777405268","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/our-mutual-friend-charles-dickens-9781470824808","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}