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Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend: Genre 1 key example

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Our Mutual Friend is a last and a first. Written by one of Victorian England’s literary giants, Our Mutual Friend is Dickens’s final major published work. But it is also part of the first wave of mass-published, serial novels that swept the English literary scene. Our Mutual Friend—like the works of George Eliot or Wilkie Collins—came published in monthly installments, a format that allowed stories to reach a wider share of readers than ever before. Dickens’s own weekly magazine, All the Year Round, gained a considerable following among devoted readers.