At the Boffin mansion, built on the fortune amassed from old Mr. Harmon's dust heaps, and at the Veneerings' superior dinner-table Dickens creates glorious comic satire. Beyond this, flowing throw the city and the novel, the river Thames gives and promises death and renewal, dominating the landscape and the love stories of Bella Wilfer and Lizzie Hexam.
year: 1964, 1998, 1978, 1994, 1997, 1951, 1971
call number/section: 1000
subjects: deception, poor families, social classes, city life, businessmen and businesswomen, inheritance and succession, london, fiction, disguise, london (england), social life and customs, 19th century, fiction
Editions
Dickens, Charles
New American Library (1964)
John Harmon will inherit a fortune if he marries a girl whose personality has been affected by her wealth, and friends and events conspire to prove her true worth.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Oxford University Press (1998)
Presents Charles Dickens's novel in which young John Harmon, supposedly murdered on his way to London to claim his inheritance, takes a job under an assumed name and spies on the people who are trying to secure his late father's fortune; and includes an introduction and explanatory notes.
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Bounty Books (1978)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Distributed by Random House (1994)
After John Harmon is murdered on his way to marry Bella Wilfer and receive a large inheritance, his father's assistant, Nicodemus Boffin, becomes the new heir and adopts Bella, who evokes an uncommon interest from Boffin's assistant.
Schools: 4
Dickens, Charles
Penguin (1997)
At the Boffin mansion, built on the fortune amassed from old Mr. Harmon's dust heaps, and at the Veneerings' superior dinner-table Dickens creates glorious comic satire. Beyond this, flowing throw the city and the novel, the river Thames gives and promises death and renewal, dominating the landscape and the love stories of Bella Wilfer and Lizzie Hexam.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Dodd (1951)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Dodd (1951)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Penguin (1971)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Walter J. Black, Inc
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Penguin (1971)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Penguin (1971)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Dodd (1951)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Schools: 1