The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. No Thoroughfare. the Perils of Certain English Prisoners. by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. with ... from Household Words and All the Year Round.] - Softcover

Dickens, Charles; Collins, Au Wilkie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1241225257 ISBN 13: 9781241225254

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011

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Title: The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. No Thoroughfare. The Perils of Certain English Prisoners. By Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. With illustrations. [Reprinted from Household Words and All the Year Round.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Dickens, Charles; Collins, Wilkie; 1890. vi. 327 p.; 8 . 12603.f.19.

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About the Author

Arguably one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens is the author of such literary masterpieces as A Tale of Two Cities (1859), A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield (1850), and The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1839), among many others. Dickens' s indelible characters and timeless stories continue to resonate with readers around the world more than 130 years after his death. Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870.

English novelist and playwright Wilkie Collins was a prolific writer with a body of work comprising thirty novels, over sixty short stories, more than a dozen plays, and a wide range of non-fiction pieces. Collins is best known for his novels The Woman in White, an early sensation novela genre combining shocking gothic horror with everyday domestic settingsand The Moonstone, which is credited as one of the first modern mystery novels. In the 1850s Collins met Charles Dickens and the two struck up a friendship, which lead to Collins becoming a frequent contributor to Dickens s journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Many of his stories have been adapted for film, including Basil, A Terribly Strange Bed, The Moonstone and The Woman in White. Collins died in 1889 at the age of 65.

Edition details

• Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1241225257
• ISBN 13: 9781241225254
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 366