The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

Dickens, Charles; Collins, Wilkie

ISBN 10: 1847497748 / ISBN 13: 9781847497741

Editore: Alma Classics, 2019

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• Titolo: The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
• Editore: Alma Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1847497748
• ISBN 13: 9781847497741
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

“In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven… two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their employer.”

Under the pseudonyms of Francis Goodchild and Thomas Idle, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins set off on a walking tour of the north-west of England, reporting back on their adventures for Dickens's magazine Household Words.

A unique insight into the friendship of two of the towering figures of Victorian literature, and featuring a pair of chilling ghost stories from the leading exponents of the genre, The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices is a charming evocation of the adventures they experienced on their trip and the gently mocking nature of their relationship.

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Wilkie Collins remains most famous for his novels The Moonstone and The Woman in White, in which he pioneered a new style of “sensation” writing, the influence of which can still be seen in today's culture in the genres of crime, mystery and suspense. He is also renowned for his close relationship with Charles Dickens, who regarded him as the most talented of his many protégés.