Barnaby Rudge Oxford World´s Classic
Barnaby Rudge Oxford World´s Classic Written at a time of social unrest in Victorian Britain and set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, Dickens's brooding novel of mayhem and…
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Barnaby Rudge Oxford World´s Classic
Written at a time of social unrest in Victorian Britain and set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, Dickens's brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century explores the relationship between repression and liberation in private and public life. Lord George Gordon's dangerous appeal to old religious prejudices is interwoven with the murder mystery surrounding the father of the simple-minded Barnaby. Barnaby Rudge tells a story of individuals caught up in the mindless violence of the mob.
Culminating in the terrifying destruction of Newgate prison by the rampaging hordes, the brilliant descriptions of the riots are among Dickens's most powerful. The discovery of the murderer and his involvement in the riots put Barnaby's life in jeopardy. Barnaby Rudge looks forward to the dark complexities of Dickens's later novels, whose characters