Uno dei "100 romanzi che hanno plasmato il nostro mondo" della BBC "Il grande poeta della città. Fu creato da Londra" Peter Ackroyd Our Mutual Friend è incentrato su un'eredità, i redditizi cumuli di polvere di Old Harmon, e sui suoi eredi: il giovane John Harmon, presumibilmente annegato quando un corpo viene tirato fuori dal Tamigi, e il gentile netturbino Mr Boffin, a cui la fortuna va in default. Con brillante satira, Dickens ritrae una Londra oscura e macabra, abitata da personaggi così disparati come Gaffer Hexam, che rovista nel fiume alla ricerca di cadaveri; l'affascinante mercenaria Bella Wilfer; i Veneerings arrampicatori sociali; e lo spregiudicato commerciante ambulante Silas Wegg. L'ultimo romanzo completato di Dickens è riccamente simbolico nella sua visione di morte e rinnovamento in una città dominata dal fetido Tamigi e dal potere corruttore del denaro. A cura di Adrian Poole con un'introduzione e note.
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Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors’ prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years’ formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.
Adrian Poole is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Tells a story spanning all levels of Victorian society. This book centre's on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees, young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the River Thames, and kindly dustman Mr Boffin, to whom the fortune defaults.
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