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Barnaby Rudge
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1840 novel by Charles Dickens
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- Author
- Charles Dickens
- First published
- 1840
- Editions
- 352
- Subjects
- Fiction, Gordon Riots, 1780, History, Apprentices, Locksmiths, Classic Literature, Gordon Riots (1780) fast (OCoLC)fst00944968, Anti-Catholicism
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- #917
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Genre
- historical fiction
- Country of origin
- England
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Series
- Master Humphrey's Clock
- Followed by
- American Notes
- Follows
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- Narrative location
- Essex
- Image
- Masterclock serial cover.jpg
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- illustrator
- George Cattermole
- title
- Barnaby Rudge
- publication date
- 1840-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- Commons category
- Barnaby Rudge
- copyright status
- public domain
- subtitle
- A Tale of the Riots of Eighty
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- first line
- In the year 1775, there stood upon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London-- measuring from the Standard in Cornhill, or rather from the spot on or near to which the Standard used to be in days of yore-- a house of public entertainment called the Maypole; which fact was demonstrated to all such travellers as could neither read nor write (and at that time a vast number both of travellers and stay-at-homes were in this condition) by the emblem reared on the roadside over against the house, which, if not of those goodly proportions that Maypoles were wont to present in olden times, was a fair young ash, thirty feet in height, and straight as any arrow that ever English yeoman drew.
- last line
- From that period (although he was supposed to be much affected by the death of Mr Willet senior), he constantly practised and improved himself in the vulgar tongue; and, as he was a mere infant for a raven when Barnaby was grey, he has very probably gone on talking to the present time.
- form of creative work
- novel
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