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Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees

Sheridan Le Fanu was born at 45 Lower Dominick Street

the French Revolution traced back to a stock market bubble

'A geriatric Lord of the Flies

Malcolm Gladwell's provocative new #1 bestseller -- now in paperback

Dear Illusion lgbtq Our Mutual Friend centres on'I suppose it was conceited of me. But it was fun. And I felt like getting a bit of my own back on some of the people who'd conned and flattered me into wasting all those years.' In this wry, piercing short story from one of the greatest of all British postwar writers, an ageing poet considers the value of his art and of the critics who've found genius in it. Then, with his final work, he exercises a unique revenge