Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty (Everyman's Library) - Softcover

Dickens, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0460877151 ISBN 13: 9780460877152

Verlag: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1996

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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 anti-Catholic mobs rampage through the streets. And, as London erupts into riot, Barnaby Rudge 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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Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. In 1824, his father was imprisoned for debt, so Charles was sent to work in a shoe-dye factory. He later became a clerk in a law firm, a shorthand reporter in the courts, and a parliamentary and newspaper reporter. In 1833, Dickens began to contribute short stories and essays to periodicals, heralding the start of a glittering and prolific literary career. He married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, with whom he had nine surviving children before they separated in 1858. Dickens died suddenly at home on June 9, 1870, leaving behind an internationally acclaimed canon of work, including Oliver Twist (1837), Nicholas Nickleby (1838), David Copperfield (1849-50), Bleak House (1852-53), Little Dorrit (1855-57), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-61) and Our Mutual Friend (1864-65). He was buried in Westminster Abbey.Michael Slater is Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck College in the University of London. He was editor of The Dickensian (1968-77) and President of the International Dickens Fellowship (1988-90). He has published many books and articles on Dickens.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0460877151
• ISBN 13: 9780460877152
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zeichner: Browne Hablot Knight, Cattermole George
• Anzahl der Seiten: 697
• Herausgeber: Hawes Donald
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• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar