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Description: ISBN 0140437282 / Author: Charles Dickens / Genre: Classic Literature / Barnaby Rudge was written by Dickens in the spring and first ... more
Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens ... flowing tide of his popularity; it came immediately after The Old Curiosity Shop, and only a short time after Pickwick. Dickens was one of those rare but often very sincere men in whom the high moment of success almost coincides with the high moment of youth. The calls upon him at this time were insistent and overwhelming; this necessarily happens at a certain stage of a successful writer's career. He was just successful enough to invite offers and not successful enough to reject them. At the beginning of his career he could throw himself into Pickwick because there was nothing else to throw himself into. At the end of his life he could throw himself into A Tale of Two Cities, because he refused to throw himself into anything else. But there was an intervening period, early in his life, when there was almost too much work for his imagination, and yet not quite enough work for his housekeeping. To this period Barnaby Rudge belongs. And it is a curious tribute to the quite curious greatness of Dickens that in this period of youthful strain we do not feel the strain but feel only the youth. His own amazing wish to write equalled or outstripped even his readers' amazing wish to read. Working too hard did not cure him of his abstract love of work. Unreasonable publishers asked him to write ten novels at once; but he wanted to write twenty novels at once. All this period is strangely full of his own sense at once of fertility and of futility; he did work which no one else could have done, and yet he could not be certain as yet that he was anybody.

Newest Review: ... our powers of visualization ,the language is so discriptive.We start off in an old inn ,with a shadowy figure ,sitting away ... more

 ... from the locals who frequent,this travellers resting place.He is concealing his face who is he? There is the locksmiths house with the ugly maidservant who has an admirer an aprentrice to the locksmith ,he also being ugly ,but thinks he is very attractive . He sneaks off at night to secret meetings . The locksmiths daughter is good looking in love with someone of an opposing faith . Then there is Barnaby Rudge a mentally retarded young man protected by his mother ,His Father a criminal,what does it all mean? I ha...more

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Premium Review Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens: a picture of human compassion and treachery (166 words)
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One of Charles Dickens great novels , a story of the gentry those below stairs ,Romance ,religious riots,and secret societies .It was going then too .This story helps us to develope our powers of visualization ,the language is so discriptive.We start off in an old inn ,with a shadowy figure ,sitting away from the locals who frequent,this travellers resting place.He is concealing his face who is he? There is the locksmiths house with the ugly maidservant who has an admirer an aprentrice to the locksmith ,he also being ugly ,but thinks he is very attractive . He sneaks off at night to secret meetings . The locksmiths daughter is good looking in ...  Read the complete review

 

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