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		<title>Charles Dickens &#8211; Author of Hope</title>
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<p>Charles Dickens lived and existed in the aftermath of the British Royal Tudor Dynasty and in Shakespearean England. The writings of Dickens in many ways are a direct response to the tragic daily life reality of Shakespearean England. Dickens&#8217; writing is essentially a small group survival guide, using Christian virtues and morality, helping people to exist in life during perilous times.</p>



<p>A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: And there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. &#8211; Proverbs 18:24 KJV</p>



<p><strong>Our Mutual Friend</strong></p>



<p>Our Mitual Friend (1865) is the fourteenth and final completed novel by legendary English author Charles Dickens.</p>



<p>The Charles Dickens novel &#8220;Our Mutual Friend&#8221; derives from Dickens reading of Psalm 113:7-8. The verse states God &#8220;raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap&#8221; providing the famous Dust Heaps in his last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend. &#8211; Google AI Gemini</p>



<p>This last novel more openly and directly brings together many of Dickens&#8217; previously slightly veiled agendas like society, family, poverty and of course glorious Victorian London. | Highly Recommend</p>



<p>by David Anson Brown</p>



<p>Why People should Read &#8216;Understand&#8217; British Author Charles Dickens | Note: Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was the greatest English novelist of the Victorian era | Dickens did not actually write fiction he very much wrote reality though often thinly disguised.</p>



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<p>BBC Playback | Our Mutual Friend (1998) | This highly acclaimed adaptation of Charles Dickens&#8217; last completed novel paints a powerful portrait of Victorian London</p>



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