Barnaby RudgeJazzybee Verlag, 1946 - 464 pàgines Barnaby Rudge was Dickens's fifth novel, and was published in 1841. The plot is extremely intricate. Barnaby is a poor half-witted lad, living in London toward the close of the eighteenth century, with his mother and his raven Grip. His father had been the steward of a country gentleman named Haredale, who was found murdered in his bed, while both his steward and his gardener had disappeared. The body of the steward, recognizable only by the clothes, is presently found in a pond. Barnaby is born the day after the double murder. Affectionate and usually docile, credulous and full of fantastic imaginings, a simpleton but faithful, he grows up to be liked and trusted. His mother having fled to London to escape a mysterious blackmailer, he becomes involved in the famous "No Popery" riots of Lord George Gordon in 1780, and is within an ace of perishing on the scaffold. The blackmailer, Mr. Haredale the brother and Emma the daughter of the murdered man, Emma's lover Edward Chester, and his father, are the chief figures of the nominal plot; but the real interest is not with them but with the side characters and the episodes. Some of the most whimsical and amusing of Dickens's character-studies appear in the pages of the novel; while the whole episode of the gathering and march of the mob, and the storming of Newgate, is surpassed in dramatic intensity by no passage in modern fiction, unless it is by Dickens's own treatment of the French Revolution in the 'Tale of Two Cities.' |
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Preface | 1 |
Chapter 1 | 3 |
Chapter 4 | 24 |
Chapter 6 | 34 |
Chapter 7 | 40 |
Chapter 8 | 44 |
Chapter 9 | 51 |
Chapter 10 | 55 |
Chapter 44 | 243 |
Chapter 45 | 246 |
Chapter 46 | 253 |
Chapter 47 | 257 |
Chapter 48 | 262 |
Chapter 51 | 278 |
Chapter 52 | 285 |
Chapter 53 | 290 |
Chapter 11 | 62 |
Chapter 12 | 66 |
Chapter 13 | 71 |
Chapter 14 | 78 |
Chapter 17 | 92 |
Chapter 18 | 99 |
Chapter 19 | 103 |
Chapter 21 | 114 |
Chapter 22 | 120 |
Chapter 23 | 125 |
Chapter 27 | 147 |
Chapter 31 | 169 |
Chapter32 | 180 |
Chapter 34 | 187 |
Chapter 35 | 191 |
Chapter 36 | 199 |
Chapter 37 | 203 |
Chapter 38 | 210 |
Chapter 39 | 214 |
Chapter 40 | 220 |
Chapter 41 | 225 |
Chapter 42 | 233 |
Chapter 43 | 236 |
Chapter 54 | 296 |
Chapter 55 | 301 |
Chapter 56 | 307 |
Chapter 57 | 312 |
Chapter 58 | 318 |
Chapter 59 | 323 |
Chapter 60 | 330 |
Chapter 61 | 333 |
Chapter 62 | 338 |
Chapter 63 | 344 |
Chapter 64 | 350 |
Chapter 67 | 366 |
Chapter 68 | 373 |
Chapter 69 | 377 |
Chapter 70 | 384 |
Chapter 71 | 389 |
Chapter 72 | 396 |
Chapter 73 | 400 |
Chapter 74 | 407 |
Chapter 77 | 423 |
Chapter 78 | 431 |
Chapter 81 | 446 |
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