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Un cadavre est retrouv dans la Tamise. Apr s identification, il est celui de John Harmon, de retour Londres pour recevoir son h ritage. Le p re de John avait ajout une clause particuli re son testament: Le fils ne pourrait recevoir l'h ritage qu' la condition d' pouser... Read Full Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this... Read Full Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe... Read Full Overview

Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap's... Read Full Overview

Rare edition with unique illustrations. A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap's expected heir, is found in the Thames,... Read Full Overview

Le corps d'un homme est retrouv dans la Tamise. Apr s identification, il s'agit de John Harmon, de retour Londres pour recevoir son h ritage. Le p re de John avait ajout une clause particuli re son testament: Il ne pourrait recevoir l'h ritage qu' la condition d' pouser... Read Full Overview

Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864-65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. It centers on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, quoting from the character Bella Wilfer... Read Full Overview

The school at which young Charley Hexam had first learned from a book--the streets being, for pupils of his degree, the great PreparatoryEstablishment in which very much that is never unlearned is learned without and before book--was a miserable loft in an unsavoury yard. Its... Read Full Overview

Engaged to the heir of a wealthy miser, poor and worldly Bella Wilfer has a rich and successful future ahead of her. That until her betrothed is found drowned in the river. Now, under the protection of the new heirs, the generous and kind-hearted Boffins, and with the offer of... Read Full Overview