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Money, money, money
Obsession with wealth and money is a major theme in Our Mutual Friend. The Harmon fortune sets the plot in motion: the supposed death of old Harmon’s rightful heir leads to the surprising windfall to his loyal servants—the Boffins—and ripples … Continue reading
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Glorious verbosity
One of the challenges of reading Dickens, of course, is his sheer verbosity: he almost never says in four words what he could say in fourteen. I’ve heard the explanation that he wrote by the word, and thus, more words … Continue reading
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