Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty

by Charles Dickens

Overview

Based around the Gordon riots of 1780 as seen through the eyes of the simple but good-hearted Barnaby Rudge. This is Dickens fifth novel and it was his first attempt to write an historical novel and was inspired by the Walter Scott’s novels. It is the most neglected, but most rewarding tale of treachery, forbidden love, abduction and the dangerous power of the mob. Barnaby Rudge is a half-witted young innocent simpleton who is devoted to his talkative raven, Grip. When he gets caught up in the mayhem of the Gordon riots and a mysterious unsolved murder, his life is put in jeopardy. And, as London erupts into riot, Barnaby Rudge himself struggles to escape the curse of his own past. With its dramatic descriptions of public violence and private horror, its strange secrets and ghostly doublings, „Barnaby Rudge” is a powerful, disturbing blend of historical realism and Gothic melodrama.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788381765763
Publisher:	Ktoczyta.pl
Publication date:	05/06/2019
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	806
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	6 Years

About the Author

Jon Mee and Iain McCalman are joint editors ofAn Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age (1999).

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	vi
	Introduction	vii
	Note on the Text	xxv
	Note on the Illustrations	xxvi
	Select Bibliography	xxx
	A Chronology of Charles Dickens	xxxv
	Map: London at the time of the Gordon Riots, 1780	xlviii
	Preface 1841	3
	Preface 1849	5
	Barnaby Rudge	9
Appendix A	The Gordon Riots	662
Appendix B	Historical Sources and Contemporary Contexts	667
Appendix C	Dickens and Scott	673
	Explanatory Notes	677