Uno dei romanzi di Dickens più trascurati, ma più gratificanti, Peter AckroydAmbientato sullo sfondo delle rivolte di Gordon del 1780, Barnaby Rudge è una storia di mistero e suspense che inizia con un duplice omicidio irrisolto e continua a coinvolgere cospirazione, ricatto, rapimento e punizione. Nel corso del romanzo padri e figli si oppongono, gli apprendisti complottano contro i loro padroni e folle anti-cattoliche imperversano per le strade. Con le sue descrizioni drammatiche di violenza pubblica e orrore privato, i suoi strani segreti e doppi spettrali, Barnaby Rudge è una potente e inquietante miscela di realismo storico e melodramma gotico.A cura di John Bowen con introduzione e note.
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Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors’ prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years’ formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.
John Bowen teaches English at the University of Keele. He has written widely on Charles Dickens and is the author of Other Dickens: Pickwick to Dombey (OUP, 2000).
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