In September 1857 two apprentices bound to a lady named Literature, Thomas Idle and Francis Goodchild, run away from London on a walking tour of the north. They climb a Cumberland fell in the rain, nurse a sprained ankle, sit up with eerie stories in an old inn and end at the Doncaster races, in a lightly fictional account of a real holiday Dickens took with Collins.
A rare joint work by two great Victorian friends, mixing self-mockery, travel sketch and a fine ghost tale. Download the free EPUB.