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Written at a time of social unrest in Victorian Britain and set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, Dickens's brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century explores the relationship between repression and liberation in private and public life. Barnaby Rudge tells a story of individuals caught up in the mindless violence of the mob. Lord George Gordon's dangerous appeal to old religious prejudices is interwoven...
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The anti-Catholic riots of 1780 in London provide the setting for this historical novel at the heart of which is the forbidden love between Emma, a Catholic, and Edward, a Protestant, and the adventures of Barnaby Rudge, one of the leaders of the uprising, whose fate is linked to a mysterious murder.
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