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A masterpiece concerning the danger and appeal of cash, Our Mutual Friend moves round the inheritance of a dust-heap where in actuality the wealthy toss their garbage. Once the body of John Harmon, the dirt-heap’s anticipated heir, can be found in the Thames, fortunes change hands remarkably, increasing to new levels “Noddy” Boffin, a low-born but kindly worker who becomes “the Gold Dustman.” Charles Dickens’s last full novel, Our Mutual Friend includes the truly amazing themes of his earlier works: the pretensions of the nouveaux riches, the ingenuousness of the ambitious bad, and the unfailing power of money to corrupt all who desire it. Using its tasty cast of heroes and several subplots, Our Mutual Friend is among Dickens’s many complex—and satisfying—novels.