Our Mutual Friend Book 1 Chapter 7 - Mr Wegg Looks after Himself
In which we take a moist and sombre stroll through Clerkenwell, where Mr Wegg calls upon Mr Venus, an engraver of bones and preserver of curiosities, whose melancholy reveries and cluttered shop evoke...
16 Jan 25min
Our Mutual Friend Book 1 Chapter 6 - Cut Adrift
In which we are introduced to the ancient and weather-beaten Six Jolly Fellowship Porters, a riverside public-house presided over with firm kindness by Miss Abbey Potterson, whose sharp eyes and comma...
16 Jan 43min
Our Mutual Friend Book 1 Chapter 5 - Boffin's Bower
In which we become acquainted with the industrious and wooden-legged Mr Silas Wegg, whose halfpenny ballads and peculiar corner stall form a humble yet steadfast fixture of London life. A curious acqu...
16 Jan 44min
Our Mutual Friend Book 1 Chapter 4 - The R. Wilfer Family
In which we observe the humble and cherubic Mr R. Wilfer and his numerous family contending with the trials of poverty, a constrained household, and the entrance of a mysterious tenant whose arrival s...
16 Jan 31min
Our Mutual Friend Book 1 Chapter 3 - Another Man
In which we accompany a solicitor and his companion as they investigate the mysterious discovery of a drowned man, encountering a family whose humble dwelling and lives are entwined with the river's s...
16 Jan 38min
Our Mutual Friend Book 1 Chapter 2 - The Man from Somewhere
In which we are introduced to the newly established Veneering household, where everything and everyone is freshness personified yet rather varnished and polished, hosting an elaborate dinner that prov...
16 Jan 30min
Our Mutual Friend Book 1 Chapter 1 - On the Look Out
In which we are quietly introduced to a grimy, small boat drifting upon the Thames, manned by a grizzled father and his pale-faced daughter, whose practised vigilance and uneasy exchanges hint at a so...
16 Jan 13min
Pickwick Papers Chapter LVII
In which we witness the heartfelt dissolution of the Pickwick Club, as its members prepare for new chapters in their lives marked by marriage and retirement in tranquil domiciles near London. The narr...
15 Jan 17min
