{"product_id":"2940169385359","title":"Our Mutual Friend (Abridged)","description":"Penguin Classics presents the audiobook adaptation of Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last completed novel portraying a dark, macabre London. Read by Robert Hardy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePLEASE NOTE: This recording has been pulled from the Penguin Archives so the quality will not be the same as modern recordings. Please listen to a sample before you buy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur Mutual Friend 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. \u003cbr\u003eWith brilliant satire, Dickens portrays a dark, macabre London, inhabited by such disparate characters as Gaffer Hexam, scavenging the river for corpses; enchanting, mercenary Bella Wilfer; the social climbing Veneerings; and the unscrupulous street-trader Silas Wegg.  The 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart of a series of abridged, vintage recordings taken from the Penguin Archives. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAffordable, collectable, quality productions - perfect for on-the-go listening.","brand":"Random House UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097910231280,"sku":"2940169385359","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169385359_p0.jpg?v=1763681216","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169385359","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}