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A distraught mother is forced to abandon her baby to a foundling hospital and begs to know the name that the authorities have given her child. She's told that his name is Walter Wilding, and upon her returns a dozen years later, it's Walter Wilding she adopts. Young Walter becomes... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

The novel No Thoroughfare was also first published in 1867, in the Christmas number of Dickens's periodical All The Year Round. There are thematic parallels with other books from Dickens's mature writings, including Little Dorrit (1857) and especially Our Mutual Friend (1865)... Read Full Overview

From a collaboration of efforts by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins comes the novel and play, No Thoroughfare. The story contains crafted descriptions, well-drawn and diverse characters, eerie and exotic backgrounds, mystery, semi-concealed identities, brinkmanship with death,... Read Full Overview

Charles John Huffam Dickens 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during... Read Full Overview

No Thoroughfare By Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens

The stage drama and book No Thoroughfare, by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, were both published in December 1867. No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts was a theatre drama written in 1867 by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Previously, the two had worked together on... Read Full Overview

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

La amistad entre Dickens y Collins se remonta a 1851 y viene propiciada por un amigo com n, Augustus Egg, y por su afici n al teatro. Y de esa amistad y la admiraci n que sent an el uno por el otro se deriv la colaboraci n literaria. La simbiosis de estos dos grandes genios... Read Full Overview

No Thoroughfare, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This... Read Full Overview

L'ab me by Wilkie Collins a t consid r comme un travail important tout au long de l'histoire humaine, et afin de garantir que ce travail ne soit jamais perdu, nous avons pris des mesures pour assurer sa pr servation en republiant ce livre dans un format contemporain pour les... Read Full Overview

When two young orphans, Walter and Lottie, stumble upon a strange and elaborate plot hatched by a group of con artists, they must risk everything to expose the truth and save an innocent man from a life of imprisonment. This thrilling adventure, penned by two of the greatest... Read Full Overview