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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 Protestants clash with Catholics on the streets. And, as London erupts into riot, Barnaby Rudge himself 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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Fiction, Gordon Riots, 1780, History, Apprentices, Locksmiths, Classic Literature, Gordon Riots (1780) fast (OCoLC)fst00944968, Anti-Catholicism, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, political, London (england), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, Cathedrals, Choral conductors, Missing persons, Great Britain, Fiction, historical, general, Émeutes de Gordon, 1780, Romans, nouvelles, Serruriers, Apprentis, Histoire, Fiction, general, English literature, Gordon riots, 1780--fiction, Pr4555.a2 b37 2003, 823.8Places
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Barnaby rudge: a tale of the riots of 'eightythe original classic edition
2012, Emereo Pty Limited
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Barnaby Rudge (German Edition)
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Barnaby Rudge
1873, Published by Hurd and Houghton, The Riverside Press
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- New Household edition / fully illustrated from designs by Darley, Gilbert, Cruikshank, Phiz, and other eminent artists.
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"In the year 1775, there stood upon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London-measuring from the Standard in Cornhill, or rather from the spot on or near to which the Standard used to be in days of yore-a house of public entertainment called the Maypole; which fact was demonstrated to all such travellers as could neither read nor write (and at that time a vast number both of travellers and stay-at-homes were in this condition) by the emblem reared on the roadside over against the house, which, if not of those goodly proportions that Maypoles were wont to present in olden times, was a fair young ash, thirty feet in height, and straight as any arrow that ever English yeoman drew."
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