✍ Scribed by Dickens, Charles
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Set in London at the time of the Gordon Riots, Barnaby Rudge interweaves a murder mystery with the story of Lord George Gordon's dangerous appeal to old religious prejudices. The brilliant descriptions of the destruction of Newgate prison by the rioters contain some of Dickens's most vivid writing. This edition uses the forthcoming Clarendon text and includes all the original illustrations, plus illuminating introduction and notes. - ;'What dark history is this?'This is the question that hangs over Dickens's brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century. Set in London at the ti.;Cover Page; Copyright Page; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Note on the Text; Note on the Illustrations; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Charles Dickens; Map: London at the time of the Gordon Riots, 1780; BARNABY RUDGE; Preface 1841; Preface 1849; BARNABY RUDGE; CHAPTER THE FIRST; CHAPTER THE SECOND; CHAPTER THE THIRD; CHAPTER THE FOURTH; CHAPTER THE FIFTH; CHAPTER THE SIXTH; CHAPTER THE SEVENTH; CHAPTER THE EIGHTH; CHAPTER THE NINTH; CHAPTER THE TENTH; CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH; CHAPTER THE TWELFTH; CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH; CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH; CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH.
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