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Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens
Does the world really need my review of Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend? Do I have anything to add to the 1,396 reviews already existing on Goodreads?
Probably not, so I will be quick. It is a satire on the middle class – and we never get tired of those. It features a wide selection of grotesque characters and a few sharp working-class girls.
This was Dickens’s last finished novel, written when he was suffering from various ailments, and most likely in some form of constant pain from his permanently swollen foot. This atmosphere of pain, suffering, sickness and death is quite visible in the novel.
There is also a character of a deformed precocious child that adds to the book’s melodramatic flair. This was what particularly vexed Henry James when he reviewed this novel very negatively.
On my part, I want to say that if I were Bella, and I found out that my husband and two of my dearest friends had played some weird psychological game on me, some bizarre test/torture, there would be hell to pay. But Bella was just like: “LOL, you doughnuts!”
Probably not, so I will be quick. It is a satire on the middle class – and we never get tired of those. It features a wide selection of grotesque characters and a few sharp working-class girls.
This was Dickens’s last finished novel, written when he was suffering from various ailments, and most likely in some form of constant pain from his permanently swollen foot. This atmosphere of pain, suffering, sickness and death is quite visible in the novel.
There is also a character of a deformed precocious child that adds to the book’s melodramatic flair. This was what particularly vexed Henry James when he reviewed this novel very negatively.
On my part, I want to say that if I were Bella, and I found out that my husband and two of my dearest friends had played some weird psychological game on me, some bizarre test/torture, there would be hell to pay. But Bella was just like: “LOL, you doughnuts!”