Project Gutenberg 2006-11-27 Public domain in the USA. 217 Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 Boz Dickens, Charles John Huffam Collins, Wilkie 1824 1889 Collins, William Wilkie No thoroughfare. Finnish Ilman menestyksettä Joulukertomus Produced by Tapio Riikonen "Ilman menestyksettä" by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins is a novella written in the early 19th century. This work intertwines themes of poverty, motherhood, and societal welfare within the backdrop of London, focusing on the lives of abandoned children and the struggles of their mothers. As the story unfolds, significant characters emerge, including Sally, a compassionate caretaker at a foundling hospital, and a mysterious mother searching for her child. The opening of the narrative introduces readers to a cold November night in London, where a mother anxiously waits outside a foundling hospital, reflecting on her turbulent past as she seeks her child. The atmosphere is heavy with tension as the mother encounters Sally, the caretaker. Their conversation reveals the mother's desperation and the emotional weight of her plea. The latter half of the opening shifts in time to fourteen years later, depicting a joyful yet chaotic scene in the foundling hospital where children are fed, hinting at the ongoing themes of innocence and loss that will shape the narrative. This initial segment sets the stage for the exploration of fate, resolve, and the mother-child bond central to the story. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 39.9 (College-level). Difficult to read. fi England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction PR Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Novels Category: British Literature 365869 2025-06-08T12:20:25.097841 text/html 365690 2025-01-08T12:01:38.524224 text/html 213001 2025-06-08T12:20:33.237812 application/epub+zip 217218 2025-06-08T12:20:28.445816 application/epub+zip 203322 2025-06-08T12:20:27.116876 application/epub+zip 407237 2025-06-08T12:20:36.775789 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 388834 2025-06-08T12:20:32.422819 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 363922 2022-09-09T11:58:16.551812 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 333191 2025-06-08T12:20:24.684837 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 318154 2006-11-27T09:39:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 122933 2006-11-27T09:39:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 18262 2025-06-08T12:20:36.928754 application/rdf+xml 15554 2025-06-08T12:20:27.694822 image/jpeg 3668 2025-06-08T12:20:27.406801 image/jpeg 212895 2025-06-08T12:20:25.133853 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia