In mutual friend the focus is on class and inherited wealth, as symbolized by the mountains of ash piled in front of the hero's original home. Having inherited the harmon wealth, kind old “noddy” boffin finds himself the target of conmen and would-be ...  Read More

The first part is the slowest, as we need to make allowances for dickens getting it all set up. Dickens is a masterful storyteller and flawlessly weaves many intricate pieces together.

I love dickens, and this work is especially delightful, chock full of heroes and heroines, as well as dastardly villains.

This is a reproduction of the 1937 nonesuch edition and it's a very large book, about the size of a tombstone in a pet graveyard. I am very pleased they had lucinda dickens hawksley do the afterword for this one. Will go on to read other classics.

Mcl is a collection of well made pocket sized classics. They're my favourites. And the penguin classics edition is as good as ever. I need to get myself a hard copy of this penguin.

The text is full of grammatical errors and poor word choice. It is filled with non-contextual synonyms and other errors. There is also no way to locate notes even though this is supposedly a penguin edition. Omf' goes quickly down to this level of bat...  Read More

Dickens' work is melodrama, but some of it is just more overwrought than is compatible with good art. Jim killavey reads in a monotone, as if he doesn't understand or doesn't care about what he is reading. Amazon has no idea what is going on here, or ...  Read More

There are many convoluted plots that often do not intersect each other significantly. The veneerings are fake. The boffins are buffoons.