Publisher's Synopsis
Barnaby Rudge: Large Print by Charles Dickens The events of the novel Barnaby Rudge (1841) by Charles Dickens revolve around one of the most dramatic episodes of the English history - the anti-Catholic Gordon Riot that burst out in London in 1780. However, the action of the book starts five years earlier, when besides the historical conflict there are two other plots - criminal and love story: mutual feelings of Edward Chester and Emma Haredale are opposed by the enmity between his father and her uncle, a widow Rudge and her son are chased by a mysterious stranger whose identity will be a key to as many as three old murders.
