{"product_id":"our-mutual-friend-by-charles-dickens-9780140434972","title":"Our Mutual Friend","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Mutual Friend\u003c\/em\u003e is Dickens' last completed novel, portraying a dark, macabre London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Mutual Friend\u003c\/em\u003e centres 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith brilliant satire, Dickens portrays a dark, macabre London, inhabited by such disparate characters as Gaffer Hexam, scavenging the river for corpses; the enchanting, mercenary Bella Wilfer; the social climbing Veneerings; and the unscrupulous street-trader Silas Wegg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel is richly symbolic in its vision of death and renewal in a city dominated by the fetid Thames, and the corrupting power of money.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46495394627820,"sku":"9780140434972","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780140434972.jpg?v=1748478328","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/our-mutual-friend-by-charles-dickens-9780140434972","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}