Mugby Junction

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jan 29, 2024

In Category - Fantastic Fiction, Anthologies

Authors: Charles Dickens, Various In Year : 1866

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Mugby Junction

Barbox Brothers (Part 1)
Barbox Brothers (Part 2)
Barbox Brothers (Part 3)
Barbox Brothers & Co (Part 1)
Barbox Brothers & Co (Part 2)
Main Line: The Boy at Mugby
No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman
No. 2 Branch Line: The Engine Driver
No. 3 Branch Line: The Compensation House (Part 1)
No. 3 Branch Line: The Compensation House (Part 2)
No. 4 Branch Line: The Travelling Post-Office (Part 1)
No. 4 Branch Line: The Travelling Post-Office (Part 2)
No. 5 Branch Line: The Engineer (Part 1)
No. 5 Branch Line: The Engineer (Part 2)

Originally published in 1866 in the Christmas edition of Dickens's magazine, "All the Year Round.", "Mugby Junction" offers a diverse collection of stories, each with its own unique characters and themes, ranging from family and compassion to the supernatural and mysterious. It showcases both Charles Dickens's storytelling prowess and the contributions of other authors to this literary work centered around the railway station, Mugby Junction.

Dickens contributes the first four stories including the spooky ‘The Signalman’, and is ably supported by Scottish journalist and dramatist Andrew Halliday’s ‘The Engine Driver’, novelist and journalist Charles Collins’ ‘The Compensation House’, evangelical author Hesba Stretton’s ‘The Travelling Post-Office’ and finally novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist Amelia B. Edwards’ tale of unrequited love, ‘The Engineer’.

Humour and pathos, life and death intersect where the great railways cross – get your ticket for Mugby Junction! (Summary by Bryn Roberts)