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by Charles Dickens (Author), John Bowen (Editor) "In the year 1775, there stood upon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London - measuring from the..." (more)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 768 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; Rev Ed edition (27 Feb 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140437282
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140437287
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 240,497 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Published in 1841 as part of MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK,the journal founded by Dickens,BARNABY RUDGE is the earlier of Dickens's two historical novels(the other being A TALE OF TWO CITIES).It is set in the period of the Gordon anti-popery riotof 1780 and contains powerful evocations of mob violence,culminating in the sackof Newgate.The main story is a romantic one about the troubled love affair of Emma Haredale,whose father has been mysteriously murdered,and Edward Chester,sonof Sir John Chester,a villain who helps to instigate the riots. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail, abduction and retribution. Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters and Protestants clash with Catholics on the streets. 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.

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In the year 1775, there stood upon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London - measuring from the Standard in Cornhill or rather from the spot on or near to which the Standard used to be in days of yore - a house of public entertainment called the Maypole;1 which fact was demonstrated to all such travellers as could neither read nor write (and sixty-six years ago2 a vast number both of travellers and stay-at-homes were in this condition) by the emblem reared on the roadside over against the house, which, if not of those goodly proportions that Maypoles were wont to present in olden times, was a fair young ash, thirty feet in height, and straight as any arrow that ever English yeoman drew. Read the first page
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