num_pages: 697
description: Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail, abduction and retribution. Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters and anti-Catholic mobs rampage through the streets. And, as London erupts into riot, Barnaby Rudge struggles to escape the curse of his own past. With its dramatic descriptions of public violence and private horror, its strange secrets and ghostly doublings, Barnaby Rudge is a powerful, disturbing blend of historical realism and Gothic melodrama.
language: English
title: Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty
titlecomplete: Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty
characters: Lord George Gordon
genres: Fiction, Historical, English Literature, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 10570
places: London, England
awards: name: جائزة د. جابر عصفور لترجمة الآداب والدراسات النقدية من المركز القومي للترجمة بمصر
publisher: Everymans Library