Mugby Junction
Cover, first edition | |
| Author | Charles Dickens |
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| Language | English |
| Published | December 1866 |
| Publisher | Chapman & Hall |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Mugby Junction is a set of railway-themed short stories written in 1866 by Charles Dickens and collaborators Charles Allston Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday, and Hesba Stretton. It was first published as a Christmas edition of the magazine All the Year Round. Dickens penned a majority of the volume, including the frame narrative in which "the Gentleman for Nowhere," who has spent his life cloistered in the firm Barbox Brothers & Co., makes use of his new-found freedom in retirement to explore the rail lines that connect with the (fictional) Mugby Junction. Dickens's collaborators each contributed an individual story to the collection.