Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend

Some critics of British 19th century novels place Dickens’s final completed novel, Our Mutual Friend , alongside other great novels of that era: Middlemarch , by George Eliot; Vanity Fair , by William Makepeace Thackeray; The Way We Live Now , by Anthony Trollope; and Jane Eyre , by Charlotte Bronte. This novel is darker, more brooding, than any of those. Rather than years or decades in his past to create a feeling of nostalgia, at the end of his 40th year as a published writer and most of the t