Barnaby Rudge (Unabridged Fiction) (Naxos Complete Classics)
Barnaby Rudge, one of only two historical novels by Dickens, deals with the 'Popery' riots of 1780. Sean Barrett is one of Britain's most popular readers. He recently produced a widely praised reading of Bleak House for the Naxos collection and he returns, now, to narrate another Dickens classic. The recording is part of the extensive Dickens collection offered in both abridged and unabridged form by Naxos AudioBooks.
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Review:
The long hours put in by this household's squad of Santa's elves raced by as we listened, high-Victorian style, to Sean Barrett giving the performance of his audio career as the narrator of Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge. I can't recommend it highly enough. Dickens is brilliant heard aloud and the book, written in short instalments, lends itself well to being your own book at bedtime or your reading during your daily commute. Set during the anti-Roman Catholic Gordon riots in London during the 1780s, it has an utterly loveable simpleton hero and three of the best villains known to literature: the smooth and cynical Sir John Chester, the devil-may-care and unhinged inn-servant Hugh, and Dennis, the whimsical hangman. Add the heart-of-oak Gabriel Vardon and his disastrously flirtatious daughter Dolly, plus a Romeo and Juliet love affair between the Anglican son and the Catholic daughter of sworn enemies, and the mid is as rich and unexpected as a good plum pud. --Christina Hardyment, The Times
Book Description:
Dickens's first historical novel is a thrilling tale of murder, treachery and forbidden love with rioting mob scenes to make your hair stand on end.
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- PublisherNaxos AudioBooks
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 9626349093
- ISBN 13 9789626349090
- BindingAudio CD
- Number of pages22
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