![]() ![]() Henry James, who reviewed it for The Nation, hated it. Our Mutual Friend was Dickens’ last completed novel, serialized in 1864-65. ![]() (READ: Counting Down Dickens’ Greatest Novels. I did not imagine it would open with a boat on the Thames at night, a hook trailing through the sludge and snagging on the waterlogged body of a dead man. I imagined, rather literally, that there’d be a lot of Pickwickian amiability in Our Mutual Friend. I liked the look of it - so pleasing, with its orange Penguin binding and its affable title. I suspect she thought that the only way she was going to get me to fall in love with Henry James was if his were the sole English-language books in my possession.īut once I had done due diligence with The Golden Bowl and The Wings of the Dove, she sent me Our Mutual Friend. ![]() Follow I was living abroad after college, my Aunt Helen, who is the most well-read person I know, used to mail me secondhand copies of her favorite novels. ![]()
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