Master Humphrey's Clock
Barnaby Rudge
About this book
Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail, abduction and retribution. Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters and Protestants clash with Catholics on the streets. And, as London erupts into riot, Barnaby Rudge himself struggles to escape the curse of his own past. With its dramatic descriptions of public violence and private horror, its strange secrets and ghostly doublings, Barnaby Rudge is a powerful, disturbing blend of historical realism and Gothic melodrama.
Master Humphrey's Clock · 2 books
In publication order- Barnaby Rudge 1840 This book
- The Old Curiosity Shop 1840
Subjects
- 823.8
- anti-catholicism
- apprentices
- apprentis
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- cathedrals
- choral conductors
- classic literature
- émeutes de gordon, 1780
- english literature
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, mystery & detective, general
- fiction, mystery & detective, historical
- fiction, political
- gordon riots, 1780
- gordon riots (1780) fast (ocolc)fst00944968
- gordon riots, 1780--fiction
- great britain
- histoire
- history
- locksmiths
- london (england), fiction
- long now manual for civilization
- missing persons
- pr4555.a2 b37 2003
- romans, nouvelles
- serruriers