Barnaby Rudgeby Charles DickensThe events of the novel Barnaby Rudge (1841) by Charles Dickens revolve around one of the most dramatic episodes of the English history – the anti-Catholic Gordon Riot that burst out in London in 1780. However, the action of the book starts five years earlier, when besides the historical conflict there are two other plots – criminal and love story: mutual feelings of Edward Chester and Emma Haredale are opposed by the enmity between his father and her uncle, a widow Rudge and her son are chased by a mysterious stranger whose identity will be a key to as many as three old murders. In the novel Barnaby Rudge above the vanity of political adventurers and religious fanaticism of a crowd, the horrors of the Newgate prison and anarchic self-will of its pogrom makers stands a figure of the main character – a simple young man with a talking raven on his shoulder, a “natural” man who is childishly remote from social events, but due to the circumstances, he was involved in the riot and found himself nearly at the scaffold...We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
