Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty Illustrated (Hardcover)

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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty is a historical novel by English novelist Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge was one of two novels that Dickens published in his short-lived weekly serial Master Humphrey’s Clock. Barnaby Rudge is largely set during the Gordon Riots of 1780.

It is set in the late 18th century and presents with great vigour and understanding (and some ambivalence of attitude) the spectacle of large-scale mob violence. In a case of mistaken identity, Barnaby Rudge, the intellectually disabled son of a murderer, is arrested as a leader of a mob of anti-Catholic rioters. Although he is subsequently jailed and sentenced to death, he is pardoned at the scaffold.