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    No Thoroughfare
    No Thoroughfare
    No Thoroughfare
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    No Thoroughfare

    By Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins

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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 a successful wine merchant and is content in his good fortune until his new housekeeper, a former nurse at the foundling hospital, confides a dark secret that brings his identity into question. Walter's attempts to solve the mystery of his existence lead to "no thoroughfare," but a nefarious plot hatched by one of his business partners brings the truth to light. 
    Long-time friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated on this novel, which began as a stage play. Ranging from darkest London to the frozen peaks of the Swiss Alps and the sunny shores of the Mediterranean, the tale reflects their penchant for adventure, humor, and romance.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateMay 21, 2020
    ISBN9780486847078
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    Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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    • 5/5
      No Thoroughfare is far and away the best of Dickens' collaborative works. Co-written with Wilkie Collins, it is a melodrama in "four acts" beginning with a dramatic prologue in a house for foundlings, and culminating in the final act learning the true identity of the foundling--with an epilogue that ties up the last loose end.

      It is tightly written from beginning to end, with a well constructed plot--at least allowing for the standard repertoire of coincidence that is allowable in these sorts of a works. It has high drama--including a scene on a snowy mountain pass between Switzerland and Italy. And it has a noble hero, a tragic figure, a plucky heroine, a villain, and a number of effective lawyers to push it all along.

      It does not have much humor, it's best character would not stand in the top ten of any of Dickens' novels, but on its own terms it works well.
    • 5/5
      No Thoroughfare is far and away the best of Dickens' collaborative works. Co-written with Wilkie Collins, it is a melodrama in "four acts" beginning with a dramatic prologue in a house for foundlings, and culminating in the final act learning the true identity of the foundling--with an epilogue that ties up the last loose end.It is tightly written from beginning to end, with a well constructed plot--at least allowing for the standard repertoire of coincidence that is allowable in these sorts of a works. It has high drama--including a scene on a snowy mountain pass between Switzerland and Italy. And it has a noble hero, a tragic figure, a plucky heroine, a villain, and a number of effective lawyers to push it all along.It does not have much humor, it's best character would not stand in the top ten of any of Dickens' novels, but on its own terms it works well.

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