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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, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights ?Noddy? Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk who becomes ?the Golden Dustman.? Charles Dickens?s last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend encompasses the great themes of his earlier works: the pretensi