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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty

Charles Dickens

Set against the backdrop of London's violent Gordon Riots of 1780, the story weaves together forbidden romances, a decades-old murder mystery, and the simple-minded Barnaby Rudge with his pet raven.

"Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty" by Charles Dickens is a historical novel. Set against the backdrop of London's violent Gordon Riots of 1780, the story weaves together forbidden romances, a decades-old murder mystery, and the simple-minded Barnaby Rudge with his pet raven.

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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.

Contents

  1. 01Preface
  2. 02Original
  3. 03Chapter 1
  4. 04Original
  5. 05Chapter 2
  6. 06Original
  7. 07Chapter 3
  8. 08Original
  9. 09Chapter 4
  10. 10Original
  11. 11Original
  12. 12Chapter 5
  13. 13Original
  14. 14Chapter 6
  15. 15Chapter 7
  16. 16Original
  17. 17Original
  18. 18Chapter 8
  19. 19Original
  20. 20Chapter 9
  21. 21Original
  22. 22Chapter 10
  23. 23Original
  24. 24Chapter 11
  25. 25Original
  26. 26Chapter 12
  27. 27Original
  28. 28Original
  29. 29Chapter 13
  30. 30Chapter 14
  31. 31Original
  32. 32Chapter 15
  33. 33Original
  34. 34Chapter 16
  35. 35Original
  36. 36Chapter 17
  37. 37Original
  38. 38Original
  39. 39Chapter 18
  40. 40Original
  41. 41Chapter 19
  42. 42Chapter 20
  43. 43Original
  44. 44Chapter 21
  45. 45Original
  46. 46Chapter 22
  47. 47Original
  48. 48Chapter 23
  49. 49Original
  50. 50Original
  51. 51Chapter 24
  52. 52Chapter 25
  53. 53Original
  54. 54Original
  55. 55Chapter 26
  56. 56Chapter 27
  57. 57Original
  58. 58Chapter 28
  59. 59Chapter 29
  60. 60Original

About this edition

Author
Charles Dickens
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
788 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers