Original Publication
Our Mutual Friend, like most Dickens novels, was published in 19 monthly instalments, each costing one shilling (with the exception of the nineteenth, which was double-length and cost two). Each issue featured 32 pages of text and two illustrations by Marcus Stone.
BOOK THE FIRST: THE CUP AND THE LIP
- I – May 1864 (chapters 1–4);
- II – June 1864 (chapters 5–7);
- III – July 1864 (chapters 8–10);
- IV – August 1864 (chapters 11–13);
- V – September 1864 (chapters 14–17).
BOOK THE SECOND: BIRDS OF A FEATHER
- VI – October 1864 (chapters 1–3);
- VII – November 1864 (chapters 4–6);
- VIII – December 1864 (chapters 7–10);
- IX – January 1865 (chapters 11–13);
- X – February 1865 (chapters 14–16).
BOOK THE THIRD: A LONG LANE
- XI – March 1865 (chapters 1–4);
- XII – April 1865 (chapters 5–7);
- XIII – May 1865 (chapters 8–10);
- XIV – June 1865 (chapters 11–14);
- XV – July 1865 (chapters 15–17).
BOOK THE FOURTH: A TURNING
- XVI – August 1865 (chapters 1–4);
- XVII – September 1865 (chapters 5–7);
- XVIII – October 1865 (chapters 8–11);
- XIX-XX – November 1865 .
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