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Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) was Dickens's fourteenth and last completed novel, dark in its conception, panoramic in its observation of English society, and containing some of the novelist's most powerful images, especially the river and dust-heaps. This critical edition documents, for the first time, the author's complete creative process, stretching from his plans for the individual instalments, through the manuscript and proofs, to the lifetime editions, both British and American, over which Dickens was able to exercise some editorial control. It minutely documents the genesis of the novel, its evolution from initial thoughts through proofs and finally to the first edition, and records the author's creative decisions as the text progressed from month to month.
