Barnaby Rudge

Charles Dickens's sweeping historical novel of riot and unrest.

At a glance Against the fury of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, a murder mystery, a doomed love, and… An old murder casts its shadow forward, and a great city teeters on the edge of chaos… What it's about Set in the years around 1780, Charles Dickens's historical novel opens… Barnaby Rudge, an innocent, trusting young man with his companion raven Grip, is drawn…

Set in the years around 1780, Charles Dickens's historical novel opens with an unsolved killing that still haunts the neighbourhood of the Maypole inn, then widens into the story of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots that…