The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics 101 Pages)

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Charles Dickens Wilkie Collins

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

Annotated Edition (Alma Classics 101 Pages)

Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins

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English

Alma Edizioni
01 February 2019

Autobiography: general; Autobiography: literary; Literature, Poetry & Criticism

Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages

“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.

By: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins
Imprint: Alma Edizioni
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm,
Weight: 131g
ISBN: 9781847497741
ISBN 10: 1847497748
Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages
Pages: 114
Publication Date: 01 February 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

A literary phenomenon in his lifetime and renowned as much for his journalism and public speaking as for his novels, Charles Dickens (1812-70) now ranks as the most important Victorian writer and one of the most influential and popular authors in the English language. His memorable and vividly rendered characters and his combination of humour, trenchant satire and compassion have left an indelible mark on our collective imagination. 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 proteges.

Reviews for The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics 101 Pages)

My dear Collins… I am open to any proposal to go anywhere any day or days this week. Fresh air and change in any amount I am ready for. If I could only find an idle man (this is a general observation), he would find the warmest recognition in this direction. -- Charles Dickens