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    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘No Thoroughfare by Wilkie Collins - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Wilkie Collins’.

    Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Collins includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781788770927
    No Thoroughfare by Wilkie Collins - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    Wilkie Collins

    William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the son of a successful and popular painter. Collins himself demonstrated some artistic talent and had a painting hung in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1849, but his real passion was for writing. On leaving school, he worked in the office of a tea merchant in the Strand but hated it. He left and read law as a student at Lincoln's Inn but already his writing career was flowering. His first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850. In 1851, the same year that he was called to the bar, he met and established a lifelong friendship with Charles Dickens. While Collins' fame rests on his best known works, The Woman in White and The Moonstone, he wrote over thirty books, as well as numerous short stories, articles and plays. He was a hugely popular writer in his lifetime. Collins was an unconventional individual: he never married but established long term liaisons with two separate households. He died in 1889.

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      No Thoroughfare by Wilkie Collins - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Wilkie Collins

      The Complete Works of

      WILKIE COLLINS

      VOLUME 32 OF 47

      No Thoroughfare

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2015

      Version 1

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘No Thoroughfare’

      Wilkie Collins: Parts Edition (in 47 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 092 7

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

      www.delphiclassics.com

      Wilkie Collins: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 32 of the Delphi Classics edition of Wilkie Collins in 47 Parts. It features the unabridged text of No Thoroughfare from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Wilkie Collins, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Wilkie Collins or the Complete Works of Wilkie Collins in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      WILKIE COLLINS

      IN 47 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Novels

      1, Antonina

      2, Basil

      3, Hide and Seek

      4, A Rogue’s Life

      5, The Dead Secret

      6, The Woman in White

      7, No Name

      8, Armadale

      9, The Moonstone

      10, Man and Wife

      11, Poor Miss Finch

      12, The New Magdalen

      13, The Law and the Lady

      14, The Two Destinies

      15, The Haunted Hotel

      16, The Fallen Leaves

      17, Jezebel’s Daughter

      18, The Black Robe

      19, Heart and Science

      20, I Say No

      21, The Evil Genius

      22, The Guilty River

      23, The Legacy of Cain

      24, Blind Love

      The Short Story Collections

      25, After Dark

      26, The Queen of Hearts

      27, Miss or Mrs.? and Other Stories in Outline

      28, The Frozen Deep and Other Stories

      29, Little Novels

      30, Miscellaneous Short Stories

      The Plays

      31, The Frozen Deep

      32, No Thoroughfare

      33, Black and White

      34, No Name- Play

      35, The Woman in White- Play

      36, The New Magdalen- Play

      37, Miss Gwilt

      38, The Moonstone- Play

      The Non-Fiction

      39, Memoirs of the Life of William Collins Esq, Ra

      40, Rambles Beyond Railways

      41, My Miscellanies

      42, Miscellaneous Essays and Articles

      The Biographies

      43, Wilkie Collins’ Charms by Olive Logan

      44, Men of Mark: W. Wilkie Collins by Edmund Yates

      45, Wilkie Collins by William Teignmouth Shore

      46, Extracts from ‘Memories of Half a Century’ by Rudolph Chambers Lehmann

      47, Extracts from ‘Life of Charles Dickens’ by John Forster

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      No Thoroughfare

      A DRAMA IN FIVE ACTS.

      In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated on a stage play titled No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts. This was the last stage production to be associated with Dickens, who died in June 1870. The play opened at the Adelphi Theatre on 26 December 1867.

      The novella No Thoroughfare was also first published in 1867, in the Christmas number of Dickens’ periodical All The Year Round. In the plot, there are thematic parallels with other books from Dickens’ mature writings, including Little Dorrit and especially Our Mutual Friend.

      The publication of the story in All The Year Round represents an early example of commercial merchandising, promoting the story to those that were aware of the stage play, and the drama to those who had already read the book. The ‘chapters’ of the book are referred to as ‘acts’ and relate heavily to the acts of the play.

      The plot concerns two boys from the Foundling Hospital, who 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 quest takes them from wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean – across the Alps in winter. Danger and treachery would prevail were it not for the courage of the heroine, Marguerite, and a faithful company servant.

      No Thoroughfare successfully ran for two-hundred performances and starred Charles Fechter as Obenreizer, Benjamin Webster as head cellarman Joey Ladle, John Billington as Wilding and Carlotta Leclercq as Marguerite.  Henry Neville played Vendale, repeating the part in a later production at the Olympic in November 1876.  Fechter and Dickens wrote a different version in French called L’abime, first produced at the Vaudeville in Paris on 2 June 1868.  There were various pirated versions in America, including one at the Park Theatre, Brooklyn, 6 January 1868.

      An original play bill for the drama

      CONTENTS

      PERSONS OF THE DRAMA.

      ACT I.

      ACT II.

      ACT III.

      ACT IV.

      ACT V.

      NO THOROUGHFARE.

      (Altered from the Christmas Story, for Performance on the Stage.)

      BY

      CHARLES DICKENS AND WILKIE COLLINS.

      PERSONS OF THE DRAMA.

      WALTER WILDING.

      GEORGE VENDALE.

      BINTREY.

      OBENREIZER.

      JOEY LADLE.

      MAÎTRE VOIGHT.

      MONK.

      Visitors (Ladies and Gentlemen), Servants, Monks,

      Guides, &c. &c. &c.

      MARGUERITE.

      THE LADY.

      SALLY GOLDSTRAW.

      MADAME DOR.

      Scene of the first Three Acts — London.

      Scene of the last Two Acts — Switzerland.

      Period — The Present Century.

      ACT I.

      (In Three Scenes.)

      FIRST SCENE. — The exterior of the Foundling Hospital. A dark night. The wind heard moaning. THE LADY, plainly dressed, is discovered waiting at the door by which the nurses of the Foundling enter and leave the institution. THE LADY listens at the door, then takes a turn on the stage, and returns to the door. At the same moment two or three nurses pass out. THE LADY, after eyeing them carefully, one by one, under the lamp which is over the door, lets them go, without speaking to them. A pause after the last nurse has gone out. SALLY GOLDSTRAW appears at the door. THE LADY recognises and stops her. The dialogue begins.

      The Lady. Stop!

      Sally. What do you want, ma’am?

      The Lady. A word with you in private.

      Sally. Are you mistaking me for somebody else? I have never seen you before.

      The Lady. I saw you this morning. You were pointed out to me by a friend who was willing to assist me so far. You are known here as Sally Goldstraw. And you first entered this institution, on this very day, twelve years since. It was impossible for me to speak to you this morning, for it was impossible for me to see you in private. I must speak to you now.

      Sally. You seem to know all about me, ma’am. Might I make so bold as to ask, who you are?

      The Lady. Come and look at me under the lamp.

      Sally (looking at her under the lamp). I don’t know you. I never saw you before to-night.

      The Lady. Do I look like a happy woman?

      Sally. No, ma’am. You look as if you had something on your mind.

      The Lady. I have something on my mind. I am one of the many miserable mothers who have never known what a mother’s happiness is. If my child is still living, he is in the Foundling Hospital — he has grown to be a boy, and I have never seen him!

      Sally. I am

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