Our Mutual Friend (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Dickens
- First Published: 1864
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: Mid-nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Mistaken or secret identity, England or English people, Wills, Inheritance or succession, Greed, Lawyers, London, Amputation, amputees, or prosthetics, Money
- Locales: London, England
Places Discussed
*River Thames (tehmz). England’s most important river serves as the central thread of the novel, tying together both character and incident. When the novel opens, the river offers both life and death. In a surreal, night scene, Gaffer Hexam is shown making his living from the bodies he finds in the river. During the course of the novel, the river is the setting for seven drownings or near-drownings, including the apparent drowning of young John Harmon, the “mutual friend” of the title.
Upriver, Rogue Riderhood and the schoolmaster, fatally...
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