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A House to Let

A House to Let

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Dickens, Charles

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ISBN10: 1535291168
ISBN13: 9781535291163
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 4 2016
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
A House to Let is a short story by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. It was originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Wilkie wrote the introduction and collaborated with Dickens on the second story and ending, while Gaskell and Proctor wrote the remainder.An elderly woman, Sophonisba, who notices signs of life in a supposedly empty dilapidated house opposite her own and employs the efforts of an elderly admirer, Jabez Jarber, and her servant, Trottle, to discover what is happening within.In a letter to Collins from 6 September 1858, Dickens outlined his idea for a Christmas story. He originally envisioned the story being written by himself and Collins with his plot outline fleshed out by Collins, but was later to invite Gaskell and Procter to contribute chapters. Dickens and Collins wrote the first chapter, Over the Way, and the last chapter Let at Last together, and each of the writers wrote one of the intervening chapters: Gaskell The Manchester Marriage, Dickens Going into Society, Procter Three Evenings in the House and Collins Trottle's Report.

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