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Our Mutual Friend

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Dickens’s dark late novel of inheritance, identity, waste, class, and moral renewal.

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Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend opens with a body in the Thames and unfolds into a dense story of money, mistaken identity, social climbing, and human worth. Dickens’s last completed novel is one of his richest portraits of London, greed, tenderness, and transformation.

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Charles Dickens died in 1870, and Our Mutual Friend was first published in 1865; these dates support the public-domain basis for this original-language edition.

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Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

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POSTSCRIPT, IN LIEU OF PREFACE

Capítulo de préviaBOOK THE FIRST — THE CUP AND THE LIPPrévia

BOOK THE FIRST — THE CUP AND THE LIP

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02POSTSCRIPT, IN LIEU OF PREFACE
  3. 03BOOK THE FIRST — THE CUP AND THE LIP
  4. 04Chapter 1
  5. 05ON THE LOOK OUT
  6. 06Chapter 2
  7. 07THE MAN FROM SOMEWHERE
  8. 08Chapter 3
  9. 09ANOTHER MAN
  10. 10Chapter 4
  11. 11THE R. WILFER FAMILY
  12. 12Chapter 5
  13. 13BOFFIN’S BOWER
  14. 14I should say, mellers it. Mellers it, is the word I should employ, Mr Boffin.’
  15. 15Chapter 6
  16. 16CUT ADRIFT
  17. 17I know your work begins early tomorrow, and I say the same to you.
  18. 18I know.’
  19. 19I know you send me away for my good.’
  20. 20Chapter 7
  21. 21MR WEGG LOOKS AFTER HIMSELF
  22. 22Chapter 8
  23. 23MR BOFFIN IN CONSULTATION
  24. 24I am well aware I am not much to look at. What might you want with me?
  25. 25I lodge at one Mr Wilfer’s, at Holloway.’
  26. 26Chapter 9
  27. 27MR AND MRS BOFFIN IN CONSULTATION
  28. 28Chapter 10
  29. 29A MARRIAGE CONTRACT
  30. 30Chapter 11
  31. 31PODSNAPPERY
  32. 32Chapter 12
  33. 33THE SWEAT OF AN HONEST MAN’S BROW
  34. 34Chapter 13
  35. 35TRACKING THE BIRD OF PREY
  36. 36Chapter 14
  37. 37THE BIRD OF PREY BROUGHT DOWN
  38. 38I mean to have you.’
  39. 39Chapter 15
  40. 40TWO NEW SERVANTS
  41. 41Chapter 16
  42. 42MINDERS AND RE-MINDERS
  43. 43Chapter 17
  44. 44A DISMAL SWAMP
  45. 45BOOK THE SECOND — BIRDS OF A FEATHER
  46. 46Chapter 1
  47. 47OF AN EDUCATIONAL CHARACTER
  48. 48I suppose I must make up my mind to marry, one of these days.’
  49. 49I should like to catch him at it!’
  50. 50Chapter 2
  51. 51STILL EDUCATIONAL
  52. 52Chapter 3
  53. 53A PIECE OF WORK
  54. 54Chapter 4
  55. 55CUPID PROMPTED
  56. 56Chapter 5
  57. 57MERCURY PROMPTING
  58. 58I mean I’ll tell you something else.’
  59. 59Chapter 6
  60. 60A RIDDLE WITHOUT AN ANSWER
  61. 61PRIVATE
  62. 62MR EUGENE WRAYBURN
  63. 63MR MORTIMER LIGHTWOOD
  64. 64I bored myself to the last degree by trying to find out what I meant.
  65. 65Chapter 7
  66. 66IN WHICH A FRIENDLY MOVE IS ORIGINATED
  67. 67Chapter 8
  68. 68IN WHICH AN INNOCENT ELOPEMENT OCCURS
  69. 69I shall always be happy to execute any commands you may have in that direction.’
  70. 70Chapter 9
  71. 71IN WHICH THE ORPHAN MAKES HIS WILL
  72. 72Chapter 10
  73. 73A SUCCESSOR
  74. 74Chapter 11
  75. 75SOME AFFAIRS OF THE HEART
  76. 76Chapter 12
  77. 77MORE BIRDS OF PREY
  78. 78SEAMAN’S BOARDING-HOUSE.
  79. 79Chapter 13
  80. 80A SOLO AND A DUETT
  81. 81I. There was no such thing as I, within my knowledge.
  82. 82Chapter 14
  83. 83STRONG OF PURPOSE
  84. 84Chapter 15
  85. 85THE WHOLE CASE SO FAR
  86. 86I can restrain myself, and I will.’
  87. 87I shall be at my work in the morning just as usual.’
  88. 88Chapter 16
  89. 89AN ANNIVERSARY OCCASION
  90. 90BOOK THE THIRD — A LONG LANE
  91. 91Chapter 1
  92. 92LODGERS IN QUEER STREET
  93. 93Chapter 2
  94. 94A RESPECTED FRIEND IN A NEW ASPECT
  95. 95MISS JENNY WREN
  96. 96DOLLS’ DRESSMAKER.
  97. 97Chapter 3
  98. 98THE SAME RESPECTED FRIEND IN MORE ASPECTS THAN ONE
  99. 99Chapter 4
  100. 100A HAPPY RETURN OF THE DAY
  101. 101Chapter 5
  102. 102THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN FALLS INTO BAD COMPANY
  103. 103Chapter 6
  104. 104THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN FALLS INTO WORSE COMPANY
  105. 105I have. Let me go after him.’
  106. 106Chapter 7
  107. 107THE FRIENDLY MOVE TAKES UP A STRONG POSITION
  108. 108Chapter 8
  109. 109THE END OF A LONG JOURNEY
  110. 110I am the Relieving Officer appointed by eternal ordinance to do my work;
  111. 111Chapter 9
  112. 112SOMEBODY BECOMES THE SUBJECT OF A PREDICTION
  113. 113I was going to say that it was a pleasure to me to look at you, Lizzie.
  114. 114I can say.’ There she stopped.
  115. 115Chapter 10
  116. 116SCOUTS OUT
  117. 117Chapter 11
  118. 118IN THE DARK
  119. 119Chapter 12
  120. 120MEANING MISCHIEF
  121. 121Chapter 13
  122. 122GIVE A DOG A BAD NAME, AND HANG HIM
  123. 123Chapter 14
  124. 124MR WEGG PREPARES A GRINDSTONE FOR MR BOFFIN’S NOSE
  125. 125Chapter 15
  126. 126THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN AT HIS WORST
  127. 127I hope it may be needless) of my being free from the sordid design attributed to me.’
  128. 128I hear him say it, bless you! I look at him, now, and I see him say it!’
  129. 129Chapter 16
  130. 130THE FEAST OF THE THREE HOBGOBLINS
  131. 131Chapter 17
  132. 132A SOCIAL CHORUS
  133. 133BOOK THE FOURTH — A TURNING
  134. 134Chapter 1
  135. 135SETTING TRAPS
  136. 136Chapter 2
  137. 137THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN RISES A LITTLE
  138. 138Chapter 3
  139. 139THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN SINKS AGAIN
  140. 140Chapter 4
  141. 141A RUNAWAY MATCH
  142. 142‘DEAREST MA,
  143. 143Chapter 5
  144. 144CONCERNING THE MENDICANT’S BRIDE
  145. 145I think not. But it’s so easy to hope not and think not, without the riches.’
  146. 146Chapter 6
  147. 147A CRY FOR HELP
  148. 148Chapter 7
  149. 149BETTER TO BE ABEL THAN CAIN
  150. 150I may say, escaped, might have been a more creditable one than it was.
  151. 151Chapter 8
  152. 152A FEW GRAINS OF PEPPER
  153. 153I might have known she was in it.’
  154. 154Chapter 9
  155. 155TWO PLACES VACATED
  156. 156‘OLD RIAH,
  157. 157F.’
  158. 158Chapter 10
  159. 159THE DOLLS’ DRESSMAKER DISCOVERS A WORD
  160. 160Chapter 11
  161. 161EFFECT IS GIVEN TO THE DOLLS’ DRESSMAKER’S DISCOVERY
  162. 162Chapter 12
  163. 163THE PASSING SHADOW
  164. 164I am going straight home, and shall remain at home to-morrow until noon.
  165. 165Chapter 13
  166. 166SHOWING HOW THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN HELPED TO SCATTER DUST
  167. 167Chapter 14
  168. 168CHECKMATE TO THE FRIENDLY MOVE
  169. 169conclusion came upon him, stopped rather abruptly.
  170. 170Chapter 15
  171. 171WHAT WAS CAUGHT IN THE TRAPS THAT WERE SET
  172. 172I takes my leave of the lambs and of their learned governor both.’
  173. 173Chapter 16
  174. 174PERSONS AND THINGS IN GENERAL
  175. 175I feel sensitive, when I see a disposition on her part to take me up short?’
  176. 176Chapter 17
  177. 177THE VOICE OF SOCIETY
  178. 178POSTSCRIPT
  179. 179IN LIEU OF PREFACE

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