TY - BOOK AU - Dickens,Charles AU - Gill, Stephen TI - Our Mutual Friend T2 - The Penguin English Library U1 - 823.8 22 PY - 1971/// CY - London, New York PB - Penguin Books KW - Inheritance and succession KW - Fiction KW - Social classes KW - Poor families KW - Deception KW - London (England) KW - Social life and customs KW - 19th century KW - Satire KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd KW - Love stories N2 - John Harmon returns to England as his father's heir. Believed drowned under suspicious circumstances--a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity--John evaluates Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance. The story is filled with colorful Victorian characters and incidents -- the faded aristocrats and parvenus gathered at the Veneering's dinner table, Betty Higden and her terror of the workhouse and the greedy plottings of Silas Wegg ER -