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Feb 1, 1998 · Our Mutual Friend uses text of the first volume edition of 1865 and includes original illustrations, a chronology and revised further reading. As Adrian Poole writes in his introduction to this new edition, 'In its vast scope and perilous ambitions it has much in common with Bleak House and Little Dorrit , but its manner is more stealthy, on edge, enigmatic.'
Mar 9, 1998 · Our Mutual Friend. Available on Tubi TV, iTunes. This highly acclaimed adaptation of Charles Dickens' last completed novel paints a powerful portrait of Victorian London. Set against the contrasting backgrounds of new money and squalid poverty, two epic love stories unfold amid bitter tensions over money, class and passion.
S1 E1 - Episode 1 - Our Mutual Friend. March 9, 1998. 50min. TV-PG. A body pulled from the Thames is identified as young John Harmon, heir to a fortune made in dust-contracting. Bella Wilfer, his wife-to-be by terms of old Harmon's will, goes into mourning though she has never met her fiancé. Store Filled.
Our Mutual Friend is the last complete work by Dickens, and is much criticized as being "less Dickensian". There is probably some truth in it, for while thematically relying on social commentary and preserving his natural wit, satire, and critical sense, Dickens has departed from his comfortable and established zone into a matured, complete and elevated level.
Overview. Epic Charles Dickens tale of passion, greed and betrayal. Lizzie and her father scrape a living on the banks of the Thames until one day they recover a body that links them with another world.
The novel opens in London on an autumn evening. Gaffer Hexam and his daughter Lizzie are sailing aboard a small, run-down boat on the River Thames. Lizzie seems distressed by their task, but helps to sail and steer the boat as her father completes his task: retrieving a corpse from the river and pocketing the money found on the body.
Our Mutual Friend Set against the contrasting backgrounds of new money and squalid poverty, two love stories unfold amid bitter tensions over money, class, and passion in this Dickens tale. Year: 1998 · Our Mutual Friend · Credits: Anna Friel, Keeley Hawes, Steven Mackintosh...
