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Charles Dickens Barnaby Rudge 1890s Antique Book - $40 (Caldwell)
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Barnaby Rudge was the fifth of Dickens's novels to be published. It had initially been planned to appear as his first, but changes of publisher led to many delays, and it first appeared in serial form in the Clock from February to November 1841.
It was Dickens's first historical novel. His only other is A Tale of Two Cities (1859), also set in revolutionary times.
Gathered around the fire at the Maypole Inn, in the village of Chigwell, on an evening of foul weather in the year 1775, are John Willet, proprietor of the Maypole, and his three cronies…..