Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens
Being the Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round, 1866. with a Frontispiece by A. Jules Goodman. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd. 1898
Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens Being the Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round, 1866. with a Frontispiece by A. Jules Goodman. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd. 1898
"Mugby Junction" is a set of short stories written in 1866 by Charles Dickens and collaborators Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday, and Hesba Stretton. It was first published in a Christmas edition of the magazine All the Year Round. Dickens penned a majority of the issue, 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 Mugby Junction. Dickens's collaborators each contributed an individual story to the collection.