The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, No Thoroughfare & A House to Let - Rilegato

Collins, Wilkie

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ISBN 10: 9353857635 ISBN 13: 9789353857639

Casa editrice: Prince Classics, 2020

Riassunto

No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867.

Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, (Walter Wilding), with disastrous consequences in adulthood. After the death of one – now a proprietor of a wine merchant's company – the executors, to right the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean – across the Alps in winter. Danger and treachery would prevail were it not for the courage of the heroine, Marguerite, and a faithful company servant.

"A House to Let" is a short story by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. It was originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Collins wrote the introduction and collaborated with Dickens on the second story and ending, while Gaskell and Proctor wrote the remainder.

The plot concerns an elderly woman, Sophonisba, who notices signs of life in a supposedly empty dilapidated house (the eponymous "House to Let") opposite her own and employs the efforts of an elderly admirer, Jabez Jarber, and her servant, Trottle, to discover what is happening within.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Prince Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• ISBN 10: 9353857635
• ISBN 13: 9789353857639
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 368
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile