Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens - Book 16, Part 4

Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens - Book 16, Part 4

Title: Our Mutual Friend

Overview: Our Mutual Friend, written in 1864–1865, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. It centers on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, quoting from the character Bella Wilfer in the book, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life". Most reviewers in the 1860s continued to praise Dickens' skill as a writer in general but did not review this novel in detail. Some found the plot both too complex and not well laid out. The Times of London found the first few chapters did not draw the reader into the characters. In the 20th century, however, reviewers began to find much to approve in the later novels of Dickens, including Our Mutual Friend. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, some reviewers suggested that Dickens was, in fact, experimenting with structure and that the characters considered somewhat flat and not recognized by the contemporary reviewers were meant rather be true representations of the Victorian working class and the key to understanding the structure of the society depicted by Dickens in the novel.

Published: 1865

Author: Charles Dickens

Genre: Novel, Serial Novel, Social Criticism Novel, Novella, Bildungsroman, Fiction Novel

Episode: Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens - Book 16, Part 4

Part: 4 of 7

Length Part: 5:19:54

Book: 16

Length Book: 36:11:37

Episodes: 31 - 40 of 68

Narrator: Mil Nicholson

Language: English

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: determination, persistence, kindness, human spirit, morality play, perception, discovery, hope, betrayal, deceit, social classes, social advancement, wealth, class, growth, change, ambition, self-improvement, social ascent, class structure, exploitation, satire, bleakness, resurrection, transformational, death, sacrifice, tragedy, accident, criticism, corruption, money

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