Charles Dickens

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. No Thoroughfare. the Perils of Certain English Prisoners. by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. with Illustrations

Publisher Marketing: 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. Contributor Bio:  Dickens, Charles 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. Contributor Bio:  Collins, Wilkie William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist.