Dickens's last completed novel, in which a fortune tied to Thames dust-heaps and a supposed drowning set off intertwined stories of greed, disguise and redemption.
Books mentioned in Our Mutual Friend (7)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: “'This, Mr Boffin and Lady, is the first chapter of the first wollume of the Decline and Fall off—' here he looked hard at the book, and stopped.”
Lives and Anecdotes of Misers by Frederic Somner Merryweather: “This, sir,' replied Silas, adjusting his spectacles, and referring to the title-page, 'is Merryweather's Lives and Anecdotes of Misers.”
A Thousand and One Nights: “they have a house out of the Tales of the Genii, and give dinners out of the Arabian Nights.”
Tales of the Genii by James Ridley: “Then, my precious child, the fun of it is that nobody knows who these Veneerings are, and that they know nobody, and that they have a house out of the Tales of the Genii, and give dinners out of the Arabian Nights.”
Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “I can say to you of the healthful music of my pulse what Hamlet said of his.”
Macbeth by William Shakespeare: “Mr George Sampson shortly afterwards took his leave, accompanied by Miss Lavinia with a candle as far as the hall, and without a candle as far as the garden gate; Mrs Wilfer, washing her hands of the Boffins, went to bed after the manner of Lady Macbeth; and R.”
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: “I felt like Gulliver with the Lilliputians firing upon him.”
Books that mention Our Mutual Friend (4)
The Patrician by John Galsworthy: “Two murders and a theft, Babs; wasn't it 'Our Mutual Friend'?”
The Secret History by Donna Tartt: “I'd been reading to Francis, Our Mutual Friend—funny, now I think about it, how much my time with Francis at the hospital in Boston was like the time that Henry spent at the hospital in Vermont with me.”
Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Essay 'Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend' (primary subject)”
Among Others by Jo Walton: “We’re reading Our Mutual Friend, which I secretly call Our Mutual Fiend.”