Project Gutenberg 1997-04-01 Public domain in the USA. 238 Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 Boz Dickens, Charles John Huffam Collins, Wilkie 1824 1889 Collins, William Wilkie The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices Transcribed from the 1905 Chapman and Hall edition (_The Works of Charles Dickens_, volume 28) by David Price "The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices" by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins is a humorous travel narrative written in the mid-19th century. The story follows two idle apprentices, Thomas Idle and Francis Goodchild, who escape their mundane lives for what they hope will be a carefree excursion. However, their journey quickly transforms into a comedic exploration of their contrasting personalities and views on idleness, which leads to a series of misadventures. The opening of the narrative introduces us to Idle and Goodchild as they abandon their responsibilities, longing for the simple pleasure of doing nothing. Their haphazard travel takes them from London to the northern English countryside, juxtaposing the idyllic rural landscape with their bumbling attempts at navigation and exploration. The characters are animated and engaging, with Goodchild often pushing Idle into ill-conceived plans that lead to humorous conflicts, particularly when their trip takes an unexpected turn in the rainy terrain of Cumberland, where they endeavor to climb the mountain Carrock. Their idleness and the absurdity of their situation set up a light-hearted but reflective commentary on the concept of leisure and purpose in life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 75.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Apprentices -- Fiction Walking -- England -- Cumbria -- Fiction Cumbria (England) -- Description and travel -- Fiction PR Text Category: Humour Category: Travel Writing Category: British Literature 267280 2025-07-01T07:31:49.111401 text/html 269709 2015-01-11T15:07:33 text/html 738884 2015-01-11T15:10:42 text/html application/zip 748390 2025-07-01T07:31:52.305372 application/epub+zip 749876 2025-07-01T07:31:49.684362 application/epub+zip 144307 2025-07-01T07:31:49.383405 application/epub+zip 821860 2025-07-01T07:31:54.554362 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 804339 2025-07-01T07:31:51.972370 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 200365 2022-09-01T08:36:08.452082 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 254648 2025-07-01T07:31:48.856415 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 254715 2015-01-11T15:06:53 text/plain; charset=utf-8 97112 2015-01-11T15:10:42 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 20085 2025-07-01T07:31:54.688326 application/rdf+xml 9480 2025-07-01T07:31:49.443390 image/jpeg 2060 2025-07-01T07:31:49.414364 image/jpeg 741879 2025-07-01T07:31:49.147357 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