Name: Barnaby Rudge (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
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Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9781774769539

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Barnaby Rudge (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Dickens

Publisher

Royal Classics

Language

English

Pages

616

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm

Weight

1.07 kg.

ISBN13

9781774769539

Synopsis "Barnaby Rudge (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)"

Set during the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780, the novel mainly follows Barnaby Rudge, a simple man living with Mary, his loving mother. When their peaceful village life is interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger, Barnaby and Mary flee to London. On their way, they encounter a group of rioters who trick Barnaby into joining them, despite Mary's pleas. Barnaby Rudge was Dickens's first historical novel. His only other is A Tale of Two Cities (1859), also set in revolutionary times. British historian and Dickens biographer Peter Ackroyd has called it "one of Dickens's most neglected, but most rewarding, novels". Grip the raven inspired Edgar Allan Poe to write his most famous poem, "The Raven".his case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian-inspired dust jacket.

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870) was born in Portsmouth and was the eldest son of a Royal Navy clerk. At twelve, his father's imprisonment for debt forced him to work in a blacking factory. His education was sporadic: he taught himself shorthand, worked as a clerk in a law office, and eventually became a parliamentary correspondent for the Morning Chronicle.

Coming from a humble family, "good old Charles" did not receive formal education until he was nine, and was heavily criticized by the critics of the time for being too self-taught. His life took an unexpected turn with his father's imprisonment for debts, moving his family to live with him in jail, allowed at that time by British laws. At the age of 12, he was already considered fit to start working in a dye factory. Although his family's situation had improved, his mother insisted he keep working there, inspiring him to write one of his masterpieces, David Copperfield.

His articles, later collected in Scenes from London Life by "Boz" (1836-1837), were very successful, and with the appearance in 1837 of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Dickens became a true publishing phenomenon. Novels such as Oliver Twist (1837-1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), and Barnaby Rudge (1841) gained enormous popularity, as did some travel chronicles, such as Pictures from Italy (1846). With Dombey and Son (1846-1848) he began his mature period, of which good examples are David Copperfield (1849-1850), his first novel in the first person and his favorite, in which he developed some autobiographical episodes; Bleak House (1852-1853); Little Dorrit (1855-1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865). He died at Gad's Hill, his country house in Higham, in the county of Kent.

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