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Classic Love Stories

Our Mutual Friend

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    Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend is a classic romance novel. Key subjects include Satire, inheritance and succession, poor families and social classes.

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    About Our Mutual Friend

    "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. Through interconnected lives spanning London's social classes, Dickens delivers savage satire and sharp social analysis, exploring themes of identity, greed, and moral transformation in Victorian society.
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    • Satire
    • London, England
    • Inheritance and succession
    • Love stories
    • Poor families
    • Social classes
    • Deception

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    Who wrote Our Mutual Friend?

    Our Mutual Friend was written by Charles Dickens.

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    It is usually shelved as Classic Love Stories.

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    Readers who like it often enjoy Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park and The Woman in White.

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