{"product_id":"9780141903897","title":"Barnaby Rudge","description":"\u003cp\u003ePenguin Classics e-books give you the best possible editions of Charles Dickens's novels, including all the original illustrations, useful and informative introductions, the definitive, accurate text as it was meant to be published, a chronology of Dickens's life and notes that fill in the background to the book. This Penguin Classics edition of \u003ci\u003eBarnaby Rudge\u003c\/i\u003e also includes a map of London at the time of the riots in the novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, \u003ci\u003eBarnaby Rudge\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eBarnaby Rudge\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful, disturbing blend of historical realism and Gothic melodrama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080543944944,"sku":"9780141903897","price":14.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141903897_p0.jpg?v=1763656396","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141903897","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}