No Thoroughfare

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In a court-yard in the City of London, which was No Thoroughfare either for vehicles or foot-passengers; a court-yard diverging from a steep, a slippery, and a winding street connecting Tower Street with the Middlesex shore of the Thames; stood the place of business of Wilding and Co., Wine Merchants.

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Bio of Charles Dickens

One of the grand masters of Victorian literature Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors' prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and "slave" factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years' formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

Bio of Wilkie Collins

Collins, Wilkie (1824 AD - 1889 AD) British author whose writings paved the way for suspense and detective fiction. Collins' pen also produced insightful observations on various social issues of his times including the condition of women. His early successes include The Woman in White (1860), and The Moonstone (1868). The central figure of the latter, Sergeant Cuff, is regarded as English fiction's first detective hero. Collins penned many stories and novels, the most celebrated of which are Basil: A Story of Modern Life (1852), Hide and Seek (1854), No Name (1862), Man and Wife (1870), The Haunted Hotel (1879), The Black Robe (1881), and The Legacy of Cain (1889). His collaboration with his close friend Charles Dickens produced The Holy-Inn Tree (1885), The Wreck of the Golden Mary (1856), and The Two Apprentices (1857). His last novel, Blind Love, was finished by Walter Besant and published posthumously in 1890. Due to their great popularity, Collins' works continue to be published even today.

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CONNECT eBooks Classics

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9781434002921