Barnaby Rudge - Wordsworth Classics - - Charles Dickens
Barnaby Rudge - Wordsworth Classics - - Charles Dickens This vivid historical and political novel by Dickens is centred on the infamous 'No Popery' riots, instigated by Lord George Gordon, which…
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Barnaby Rudge - Wordsworth Classics - - Charles Dickens
This vivid historical and political novel by Dickens is centred on the infamous 'No Popery' riots, instigated by Lord George Gordon, which terrorised London in 1780. His intense account of the riots is interwoven with the mysterious tale of a long-unsolved murder and with a romance involving forbidden love, treachery and heroism. Dickens' targets are prejudice, intolerance, religious bigotry and nationalistic fervour, together with the villains who exploit these for selfish ends.
Furthermore, recent historical events have renewed its political topicality. Barnaby Rudge abounds in memorably strange, comic and grotesque characters.
Barnaby Rudge