Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Couverture rigide

Dickens, Charles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0192545132 ISBN 13 : 9780192545138

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1987

Synopsis

A young man's innocent involvement in a revolt serves as the basis for Dickens's historical novel about the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

all just mention; it was at the time when press warrants were issued, on the alarm about Falkland Islands. The woman's husband was pressed, their goods seized for some debts of his, and she, with two small children, turned into the streets a-begging. It is a circumstance not to be forgotten, that she was very young (under nineteen), and most remarkably handsome. She went to a linen-draper's shop, took some coarse linen off the counter, and slipped it under her cloak; the shopman saw her, and she laid it down: for this she was hanged. Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket), "that she had lived in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a press-gang came and stole her husband from her; but since then, she had no bed to lie on; nothing to give her children to eat; and they were almost naked; and perhaps she might have done something wrong, for she hardly knew what she did." The parish officers testified the truth of this story; but it seems, there had been a good deal of shop-lifting ab

Revue de presse

The long hours put in by this household's squad of Santa's elves raced by as we listened, high-Victorian style, to Sean Barrett giving the performance of his audio career as the narrator of Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge. I can't recommend it highly enough. Dickens is brilliant heard aloud and the book, written in short instalments, lends itself well to being your own book at bedtime or your reading during your daily commute. Set during the anti-Roman Catholic Gordon riots in London during the 1780s, it has an utterly loveable simpleton hero and three of the best villains known to literature: the smooth and cynical Sir John Chester, the devil-may-care and unhinged inn-servant Hugh, and Dennis, the whimsical hangman. Add the heart-of-oak Gabriel Vardon and his disastrously flirtatious daughter Dolly, plus a Romeo and Juliet love affair between the Anglican son and the Catholic daughter of sworn enemies, and the mid is as rich and unexpected as a good plum pud. --Christina Hardyment, The Times

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0192545132
• ISBN 13: 9780192545138
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 658
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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