John Harmon, Bella Wilfer and Noddy Boffin are characters in which of Charles Dickens' novels?
"that neither has any money. They attempt to obtain financial advantage by pairing off their acquaintance, Fledgeby, first with the heiress Georgiana Podsnap and later with Bella Wilfer. Fledgeby is an extortioner and money-lender, who uses the kindly old Jew, Riah, as his cover, temporarily causing Riah to fall out with his friend and protégée Jenny Wren. Eventually, all attempts at improving their financial situation having failed, the Lammles leave England, Mr Lammle having first administered a sound beating to Fledgeby. ""Our Mutual Friend"", like most Dickens novels, was published in 19 monthly instalments, each costing one shilling (with the"
"estranged from all except his faithful employees Mr and Mrs Boffin. By his will, his fortune goes to his estranged son John Harmon, who is to return from where he has settled abroad (possibly in South Africa) to claim it, on condition that he marries a woman he has never met, Miss Bella Wilfer. The implementation of the will is in the charge of the solicitor, Mortimer Lightwood, who has no other practice. The son and heir does not appear, though some knew him aboard the ship to London. A body is found in the Thames by Gaffer Hexam, rowed"
"favourite in the book will be—or rather is already—Bella Wilfer. She is evidently a pet of the author's, and she will long remain the darling of half the households of England and America."" E S Dallas, in his 1865 review, concurred that ""Mr Dickens has never done anything in the portraiture of women so pretty and so perfect"" as Bella. Dallas also admired the creation of Jenny Wren—who was greeted with contempt by Henry James—stating that, ""The dolls' dressmaker is one of his most charming pictures, and Mr Dickens tells her strange story with a mixture of humour and pathos"
"of the later will disinheriting Boffin, Boffin turns the tables by revealing a still later will by which the fortune is granted to Boffin even at young John Harmon's expense. The Boffins are determined to make John Harmon and his bride Bella Wilfer their heirs anyway so all ends well, except for the villain Wegg, who is carted away by Sloppy. Sloppy himself becomes friendly with Jenny Wren, whose father has died. A sub-plot involves the activities of the devious Mr and Mrs Lammle, a couple who have married one another for money to live in society, only to discover"
"boffin-hero, were further spread by Nevil Shute's novel ""No Highway"" (1948), Paul Brickhill's non-fiction book ""The Dambusters"" (1951) and Shute's autobiography """" (1954). Films of ""The Small Back Room"" (1948), ""No Highway"" (1951, as ""No Highway in the Sky""), and ""The Dambusters"" (1954) also featured boffins as heroes, as did stand-alone films such as ""The Man in the White Suit"" (1951) and ""The Sound Barrier"" (1952). John Wyndham's novel ""The Kraken Wakes"" includes a song called ""The Boffin's Lament"" or ""The Lay of the Baffled Boffin"". ""Boffin"" continued, in this immediate postwar period, to carry its wartime connotations: a modern-day"
"others. They take the disappointed bride of the drowned heir, Miss Wilfer, into their household, and treat her as their pampered child and heiress. They also accept an offer from Julius Handford, now going under the name of John Rokesmith, to serve as their confidential secretary and man of business, at no salary. Rokesmith uses this position to watch and learn everything about the Boffins, Miss Wilfer, and the aftershock of the drowning of the heir John Harmon. Mr Boffin engages a one-legged ballad-seller, Silas Wegg, to read aloud to him in the evenings, and Wegg tries to take advantage"
"his book ""Whoreson"" was accepted by Holloway House's editors, but was published first. ""Dopefiend"" features an ensemble cast of characters. The central antagonist is named Porky, a drug dealer who seeks to exploit the weaknesses of others and enjoys humiliating people, especially women, whom he sometimes forces to copulate with his German Shepherds in order to score some drugs when they do not have the funds to pay for them. Terry and Teddy are a young couple whose relationship is destroyed by drugs. Terry does not use initially, but is given free drugs by Porky as he hopes to get"
"misers that Mr Boffin ennumerates. He is coupled with the banker Jemmy Wood of Gloucester, a more recent miser about whom Dickens later wrote an article in his magazine All The Year Round. Others include John Little (who appears in Merryweather), Reverend Mr Jones of Blewbury (also in Merryweather) and Dick Jarrel, whose surname was really Jarrett and an account of whom appeared in the Annual Register for 1806. The many volumes of this publication also figured among Mr Boffin's purchases. Two more of the misers mentioned made their way into other literary works. John Hopkins, known as Vulture Hopkins,"
"marry Bella to suit the conditions of his father's will, and though initially, he refused to marry her for that reason. However, he later married her for love. Harmon goes against his father's wishes in another way by taking the alias of John Rokesmith he refuses his inheritance. Bella is also swayed by the influence of her parents. Her mother wishes her to marry for money to better the fortunes of the entire family, although her father is happy with her marrying John Rokesmith for love. Bella's marriage to Rokesmith goes against what is expected of her by her mother,"
"Victorian society generally, not Dickens himself. Harland S Nelson's 1973 article ""Dickens's ""Our Mutual Friend"" and Henry Mayhew's ""London Labour and the London Poor"""" examines Dickens's inspiration for two of the novel's working class characters. Nelson asserts that Gaffer Hexam and Betty Higden were potentially modelled after real members of London's working class whom Mayhew interviewed in the 1840s for his nonfiction work ""London Labour and the London Poor."" Unlike some of Dickens's contemporaries, who regarded the characters in ""Our Mutual Friend"" as unrealistic representations of actual Victorian people, Nelson maintains that London's nineteenth-century working class is authentically depicted through"
"is confusing for the reader. This list will help to identify the characters in the novel. Caught (Coben novel) Caught is a 2010 novel by Harlan Coben. 17 year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the"
"about the girl before claiming his inheritance; the shipmate agreed with the intention of the theft of Harmon’s cash, but Riderhood took it all. Rokesmith/Harmon has been maintaining his alias to try to win Bella Wilfer without the force of the will and the wealth. Now that she has married him, believing him to be poor, he can throw off his disguise. He does so and it is revealed that Mr Boffin's apparent miserliness and ill-treatment of his secretary were part of a scheme to test Bella's motives about money. When Wegg attempts to clinch his blackmail on the basis"
"Godolphin (novel) Godolphin is a satirical 19th-century British romance novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It is about the life of an idealistic man, Percy Godolphin, and his eventual lover, Constance Vernon. Written as a frame narrative, ""Godolphin"" provides a satirical insight into the day-to-day lives of the early 19th-century British elite. The story is told through the narration of two protagonists, Percy Godolphin and Constance Vernon, as they rise to prominence among the London elite. ""Godolphin"" was published two years after The Reform Bill passed which put an end to the exclusive high class in England. Bulwer-Lytton, being a politician, was"
"friend and schoolfellow, was their lodger. In ""A Tale of Two Cities"" (1859) Roger Cly, the Old Bailey informant, was buried in Old St Pancras Churchyard. The funeral over, later that night Jerry Cruncher and his companions went ""fishing"" (body snatching), trying unsuccessfully to 'resurrect' Cly. Robert Blincoe (1792–1860), on whose lifestory ""Oliver Twist"" (1838) may be based, was a child inmate at the St Pancras Workhouse. A central character in Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend (1865) is Nicodemus Boffin, nicknamed 'The Golden Dustman' because of the wealth he inherited from his old employer John Harmon, who had made his fortune"
"The New York Times reported that Neri's middle grade novel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 3/1/2016) is a detective story starring Harper Lee and Truman Capote as children growing up in the Deep South during the Depression. Based on a true story, its basically Huck Finn meets the Hardy Boys with elements that make up the true story behind To Kill a Mockingbird. Gary D. Schmidt, the Newbery Honor author of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy and The Wednesday Wars said, ""Tru & Nelle is a wonderfully imaginative re-creation of the childhoods of two great American writers, but even more, it"
"END. Dickens was travelling with his mistress Ellen Ternan and her mother. Sales of ""Our Mutual Friend"" were 35,000 for the first monthly number, but then dropped, with 5,000 for the second number and 19,000 for the concluding double number. In ""Our Mutual Friend"" Dickens explores the conflict between doing what society expects and the idea of being true to oneself. With regard to this the influence of the family is important. In many of Dickens's novels, including ""Our Mutual Friend"" and ""Little Dorrit"", parents try to force their children into arranged marriages. John Harmon, for example, was supposed to"
"and leaves him for dead. Lizzie finds him in the river and rescues him. Wrayburn, thinking he will die anyway, marries Lizzie, and suppresses any hint that Headstone was his attacker to save her reputation. When he survives, he is glad that this has brought him into a loving marriage, albeit with a social inferior. He had not cared about the social gulf between them but Lizzie had and would not otherwise have married him. Rokesmith is in love with Bella Wilfer but she cannot bear to accept him, having insisted that she will marry only for money. Mr Boffin"
"diverse as political corruption, jazz, soul food, and the sexual underside of Harlem life in that era. Three films have been made based on the characters of Coffin Ed and Gravedigger: ""Cotton Comes to Harlem"" (1970), ""Come Back, Charleston Blue"" (1972) and ""A Rage in Harlem"" (1991). Harlem Detective The Harlem Detective series of novels by Chester Himes comprises nine hardboiled novels set in the 1950s and early 1960s: Their protagonists are two black NYPD detectives (whose origins can be traced to a short story Himes published (1933) in ""Abbott's Monthly Magazine"") — Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson —"
"under the care of Charlie. Lucifer's heterosexual love interest, Bella, appears and reveals she is the daughter of a man he killed in the early chapters of the book as part of a routine assignment. Charlie intercedes at the last moment to save Lucifer and Bella is killed. Lucifer Box: A decadent Edwardian gentleman, resident and owner of No. 9 Downing Street. In addition to being a portrait painter, wit, dandy and indiscriminate rake, Lucifer Box is an agent of His Majesty's Secret Service, reporting to Sir Joshua Reynolds. He is young, handsome, charming with a pronouncedly sardonic sense of"
"The leading detective in the first three stories was an Inspector Winter. He appeared too in the fourth story ‘The Dull Dead’ (1958) but by this time the young John Coffin (described as “mercurial”) had made his first appearance, and it was with Coffin that Gwendoline Butler continued. [9] There was a quantum leap for John Coffin, in 1989. Starting with the book ‘Coffin in the Black Museum’ his creator took him from south London across the Thames and planted him in east London, in an imaginary district that was obviously based on Docklands. [10] [8] Foreword John Kennedy Melling,"
"Bella Swan Isabella Marie ""Bella"" Swan (later Bella Cullen) is a character and the protagonist of the ""Twilight"" series, written by Stephenie Meyer. The ""Twilight"" series, consisting of the novels ""Twilight"", ""New Moon"", ""Eclipse"", and ""Breaking Dawn"", is primarily narrated from Bella's point of view, but partway through ""Breaking Dawn"" it is written from the point of view of Jacob Black. In the film series, Bella is portrayed by actress Kristen Stewart. In ""Twilight"", Bella moves to her father's home in Forks, Washington, meets the mysterious Cullen family, and falls in love with Edward Cullen. However, she soon discovers that"
"and discovers her worth ""by giving up her identity and throwing away nearly everything in life that matters."" Bella Swan was often compared to Katniss Everdeen on the publication of ""The Hunger Games"". Bella Swan Isabella Marie ""Bella"" Swan (later Bella Cullen) is a character and the protagonist of the ""Twilight"" series, written by Stephenie Meyer. The ""Twilight"" series, consisting of the novels ""Twilight"", ""New Moon"", ""Eclipse"", and ""Breaking Dawn"", is primarily narrated from Bella's point of view, but partway through ""Breaking Dawn"" it is written from the point of view of Jacob Black. In the film series, Bella is"
"intentions of various characters which seem more fitting with a third person limited omniscient narrator. The main character of the book, Bella, is an orphan who lives with her uncle and aunt. At the beginning of the story she is 14 and is described as being ""the admired one of all eyes and the desired one of all hearts – at any rate among the male sex"". She begins the book sexually naive, but inquisitive. Very little description is given of Charlie, and after a brief mention in Chapter 3 he ceases to play any part in the story. A"
"appears to be corrupted by his wealth and becomes a miser. He also begins to treat his secretary Rokesmith with contempt and cruelty. This arouses the sympathy of Bella Wilfer, and she stands up for Rokesmith when Mr Boffin dismisses him for aspiring to marry her. They marry and live happily, in relatively poor circumstances. Bella soon conceives. Meanwhile, Bradley Headstone tries to put the blame for his assault on Wrayburn onto Rogue Riderhood, by dressing in similar clothes when doing the deed and then putting his own clothes in the river. Riderhood fetches the bundle of clothing and attempts"
"the one-legged Dickon Hawkes. Silas himself frightens Maud but is nonetheless seemingly kind to her, in contrast to his treatment of his own children, the loutish Dudley and the uneducated Millicent ('Milly'). Initially deprecating of her rustic mannerisms, Maud and Millicent become best friends, and each other's only source of companionship at the estate. During her stay, Maud is subject to various attempts by Dudley to court her, but she rejects him thoroughly on each occasion. Silas is periodically subject to mysterious catatonic fits, attributed to his massive opium consumption. Various ominous happenings begin to take place at Bartram-Haugh; it"
"States. His stories of middle and upper class life set in the 1880s and 1890s are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction. His most popular novel, ""The Rise of Silas Lapham"" (1885), depicts a man who, ironically, falls from materialistic fortune by his own mistakes. Other early American realists include Samuel Clemens (1835–1910), better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, author of ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884), Stephen Crane (1871–1900), and Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832–1899). Twain's style, based on vigorous, realistic, colloquial American speech, gave American writers a new appreciation of their national voice. Twain was"
"caused by this, Lytton released a revised version of the novel in 1840. Godolphin (novel) Godolphin is a satirical 19th-century British romance novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It is about the life of an idealistic man, Percy Godolphin, and his eventual lover, Constance Vernon. Written as a frame narrative, ""Godolphin"" provides a satirical insight into the day-to-day lives of the early 19th-century British elite. The story is told through the narration of two protagonists, Percy Godolphin and Constance Vernon, as they rise to prominence among the London elite. ""Godolphin"" was published two years after The Reform Bill passed which put an"
"Harlem Detective The Harlem Detective series of novels by Chester Himes comprises nine hardboiled novels set in the 1950s and early 1960s: Their protagonists are two black NYPD detectives (whose origins can be traced to a short story Himes published (1933) in ""Abbott's Monthly Magazine"") — Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson — whose names suggest the nature of their police methods and reputation. Jones and Johnson generally go easy with, and even tolerate, numbers operators, madames, whores, and gamblers; but they are extremely hostile to violent criminals, drug dealers, confidence tricksters and pimps. Himes says that they are tough,"
"avoid the scandal of it being known they were travelling together. Dickens leaves Nelly in the care of others, and tends to the injured and dying along the train. Nelly observes him retrieve a manuscript page of an episode of ""Our Mutual Friend"" on which he had been working. In the coming years, Nelly remains his secret mistress until his death in 1870. In 1876, she marries Oxford graduate George Wharton Robinson, twelve years her junior. The couple have a son and run a boys' school at Margate. While knowing that she knew Charles Dickens as a child, George does"
"and dies. John Jarndyce takes in Ada and her child, a boy whom she names Richard. Esther and Woodcourt marry and live in a Yorkshire house which Jarndyce gives to them. The couple later raise two daughters. Many of the novel's subplots focus on minor characters. One such subplot is the hard life and happy, though difficult, marriage of Caddy Jellyby and Prince Turveydrop. Another plot focuses on George Rouncewell's rediscovery of his family, and his reunion with his mother and brother. As usual, Dickens drew upon many real people and places but imaginatively transformed them in his novel (see"
"written with his lifelong friend and collaborator Guy Bolton. Set in the early 1950s, the story concerns Bill Belfry, Lord Rowcester, an English aristocrat who is in financial trouble. His future relies on the problem-solving abilities of Jeeves, who is temporarily serving as Bill's butler. The novel is set in the early 1950s, when much of the English aristocracy has lost its wealth. Bertie has gone to a school that teaches the aristocracy to fend for itself, in case he meets the same fate. He is not allowed to bring Jeeves, so Jeeves goes to work temporarily for one of"
"old and beautiful. As a captive on Larsen's boat, she uses her intelligence to survive. Miss Brewster has the ability to stare into people's eyes and tell their emotions. Her beliefs are similar to Van Weyden and she has read widely. Jack London's novel has been adapted for motion pictures: The book was adapted in four-hour-long episodes for BBC Radio 4, with Jack Klaff as Wolf, Kerry Shale as van Weyden and Ian Dury as Mugridge. The Sea-Wolf The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary"
"forced to stay away from Corrigan for the rest of his life. This realization saddens Charlie. Charlie goes to Eliza, who continues to watch the fire calmly, and whispers ""perfect words"" in her ear. Charlie Bucktin: The 13 year old protagonist and narrator of the novel. He is intellectual rather than athletic. This makes him somewhat of an outsider in Corrigan, where sporting ability is highly valued. He aspires to become a writer, and reads notable books during the course of the novel, including ""Pudd'nhead Wilson"" and ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". These books are the source of much of Charlie's"