Name: Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty
Author: Charles Dickens

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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty

by Charles Dickens

Category: Fiction

Status: Available

Source: Public Domain — Project Gutenberg

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"Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty" by Charles Dickens is a historical novel published in 1841. 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. As anti-Catholic fervor ignites the city, families are torn apart and ordinary people are swept into mob violence. Churches burn, homes are destroyed, and innocent lives hang in the balance in this tale of social upheaval. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

About the Author

English · 1812–1870

One of the most loved English writers of all time. His stories show the hard lives of poor people in Victorian London.

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Produced by Donald Lainson

BARNABY RUDGE

A TALE OF THE RIOTS OF ‘EIGHTY

by Charles Dickens

Contibutor’s Note:

I’ve left in archaic forms such as ‘to-morrow’ or ‘to-day’ as they occured in my copy. Also please be aware if spell-checking, that within dialog many ‘mispelled’ words exist, i.e. ‘wery’ for ‘very’, as intended by the author.

D.L.

PREFACE

The late Mr Waterton having, some time ago, expressed his opinion that ravens are gradually becoming extinct in England, I offered the few following words about my experience of these birds.

The raven in this story is a compound of two great originals, of whom I was, at different times, the proud possessor. The first was in the bloom of his youth, when he was discovered in a mode

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