Our Mutual Friend Author:Charles Dickens "Our Mutual Friend is about 'money, money, money, and what money can make of life.' This theme plays an important part in Dickens' earlier fiction, too, but never does Dickens so concentrate his attention on the power of money as in this last of his completed novels." Thus writes J. Hillis Miller in his Afterward to a work that tanks amon... more »g Dickens' greatest artistic triumphs. Utilizing in its dramatically constructed plot a mysterious inheritance, a bitter love triangle, and a cast of characters who range from the highest to the lowest social levels, the novel presents a witty indictment of a society fallen prey to the dehumanizing spirit of a burgeoning commercial age.« less