"in 2014, and cast an actor with Down's Syndrome, Daniel Laurie, in the title role. Online editions Commentary Barnaby Rudge Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens. ""Barnaby Rudge"" was one of two novels (the other was ""The Old Curiosity Shop"") that Dickens published in his short-lived (1840–1841) weekly serial ""Master Humphrey's Clock"". ""Barnaby Rudge"" is largely set during the Gordon Riots of 1780. ""Barnaby Rudge"" was the fifth of Dickens' novels to be published. It had originally been planned to appear as his"
"Bow Street"" depicts the Gordon Riots and the recalcitrance of Lord North to the establishment of a police force. In Bernard Cornwell's ""Sharpe"" novels, the protagonist Richard Sharpe's mother was killed during the riots while he was still a child. Miranda Hearn's 2003 historical novel ""A Life Everlasting"" depicts the main protagonists caught up in the riots as innocent Londoners. Gordon Riots The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days of rioting based on anti-Catholic feeling. They began with a massive and orderly protest in London against the Papists Act of 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against"
"such as the Polish novelist Bolesław Prus in his sole historical novel, ""Pharaoh"", to distance themselves from their own time and place to gain perspective on society and on the human condition, or to escape the depredations of the censor. In some historical novels, major historic events take place mostly off-stage, while the fictional characters inhabit the world where those events occur. Robert Louis Stevenson's ""Kidnapped"" recounts mostly private adventures set against the backdrop of the Jacobite troubles in Scotland. Charles Dickens's ""Barnaby Rudge"" is set amid the Gordon Riots, and ""A Tale of Two Cities"" in the French Revolution."
"a ""historic moment"". ""The Perils of Certain English Prisoners"" is an early work of fiction co-authored by Dickens and Wilkie Collins dealing allegorically with the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Patrick Brantlinger regards it as melodramatic and wildly inaccurate. It appeared in the 1857 Christmas number of ""Household Words"". In ""Perils"" Dickens describes the ""native Sambo"", a paradigm of the Indian mutineers, as a ""double-dyed traitor, and a most infernal villain"" who takes part in a massacre of women and children, in an allusion to the Cawnpore Massacre. Dickens was much incensed by the massacre in which over a hundred English"
"Hard Times (novel) Hard Times – For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era. ""Hard Times"" is unusual in several ways. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, ""Hard Times"" has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London."
"A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. Dickens's famous opening sentence introduces the universal approach of the book, the French Revolution, and the drama depicted"
"their relations with industrialists, focusing more on the thinking and perspective of the employers. ""Shirley"" (1849), Charlotte Brontë's second published novel after ""Jane Eyre"", is also a social novel. Set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, the action in ""Shirley"" takes place against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. Social problems are also an important concern in the novels of Charles Dickens, including in particular poverty and the unhealthy living conditions associated with it, the exploitation of ordinary people by money"
"starting point of the Gordon Riots in 1780 which began in the movement to repeal the act of parliament removing penalties for Catholics. The obelisk at St George's Circus was built in 1771 in honour of Brass Crosby, the Lord Mayor of the City of London. It was moved to the north apex of Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, (the remnant of Multon Close) a short distant southwest, in front of the museum, in 1905, and put back in its original spot in the late 1990s. The Obelisk was mentioned in the novel ""David Copperfield"" by Charles Dickens: St George's Cathedral,"
"Insurrection (O'Flaherty novel) Insurrection is a 1950 novel by the Irish novelist Liam O'Flaherty. The story takes place during the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916. It was O’Flaherty’s final novel. The novel follows a diverse group of characters who are caught up in the events of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. The group are dispatched to defend the main road from Dublin to Dún Laoghaire (Dublin’s main port) from the expected arrival of British reinforcements. The novel explores each man’s motivations, fears and hopes through the battles and violence which ensue. The principal characters are: The uneducated, slow-witted"
"Battle of Life"" (1846) and ""The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain"" (1848); these were secular conversion tales which acknowledged the progressive societal changes of the previous year, and highlighted those social problems which still needed to be addressed. While the public eagerly bought the later books, the reviewers were highly critical of the stories. By 1849 Dickens was engaged with ""David Copperfield"" and had neither the time nor the inclination to produce another Christmas book. He decided the best way to reach his audience with his ""Carol philosophy"" was by public readings. During Christmas 1852 Dickens gave a reading"
"like Charles Dickens's ""Hard Times"" and Henry Green's ""Living"". Walter Greenwood's ""Love on the Dole"" (1933) has been described as an ""excellent example"" of an English proletarian novel It was written during the early 1930s as a response to the crisis of unemployment, which was being felt locally, nationally, and internationally. It is set in Hanky Park, an industrial slum in Salford, where Greenwood was born and brought up. The novel begins around the time of the General Strike of 1926, but its main action takes place in 1931. The young adult problem novel deals with an adolescent's first confrontation"
"Smith - British commanding officers at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Robert Newman, Thomas Bernard, and John Pulling - Thomas stood guard while Robert and John raised the lanterns in the steeple of the Old North Church. Shadow Fox Shadow Fox: Sons of Liberty is a 2010 children's time travel novel by Ron Hardman and Jessica Hardman. The fantastical elements of the story lead into a historically accurate depiction of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride at the start of the American Revolution. The novel's themes include liberty, freedom, loyalty, and the explosive tension between the Sons of Liberty and British"
"Bleak House Bleak House is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and the story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of ""Bleak House"" is a long-running legal case, ""Jarndyce and Jarndyce"", which came about because someone wrote several conflicting wills. Dickens uses this case to satirise the English judicial system. Though the legal profession criticised Dickens' satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement, which"
"classes, was revolutionary. Some historians argue that this transfer of power achieved in England what the French Revolution achieved eventually in France. The agitation preceding and following the first Reform Act (which Dickens observed at first hand as a shorthand Parliamentary reporter) made many people consider fundamental issues of society and politics. The novel ""Middlemarch"", by Mary Ann Evans (""George Eliot"") is set in the 1830s and mentions the struggle over the Reform Bills, though not as a major topic. Eliot's ""Felix Holt, the Radical"", set in 1832, is a novel explicitly about the Great Reform Act. This extended the"
"Adaptations of A Christmas Carol ""A Christmas Carol"", the popular 1843 novella by Charles Dickens (1812–1870), is one of the British author's best-known works. It is the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy miser who hates Christmas, but is transformed into a caring, kindly person through the visitations of four ghosts. The classic work has been dramatised and adapted countless times for virtually every medium and performance genre, and new versions appear regularly. The novel was the subject of Dickens' first public reading, given in Birmingham Town Hall to the Industrial and Literary Institute on 27 December 1852. This was"
"prisoners, most of them women and children, were killed, and on 4 October 1857 Dickens wrote in a private letter to Baroness Burdett-Coutts: ""I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India ... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested ... proceeding, with all convenient dispatch and merciful swiftness of execution, to blot it out of mankind and raze it off the face of the earth."" Lillian Nayder has noted that Dickens collaborator, Wilkie Collins, lacked his hostility to the Indian people, nor faulted them for the mutiny"
"and the plight of the poor and oppressed. His most important works include ""Oliver Twist"" (1837–39), ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (183839)"", A Christmas Carol"" (1843), ""Dombey and Son"" (1846–48), ""David Copperfield"" (184950), ""Bleak House"" (185253), ""Little Dorrit"" (185557), ""A Tale of Two Cities"" (1859), and ""Great Expectations"" (186061). There is a gradual trend in his fiction towards darker themes which mirrors a tendency in much of the writing of the 19th century. William Thackeray was Dickens' great rival in the first half of Queen Victoria's reign. With a similar style but a slightly more detached, acerbic and barbed satirical view of his"
"problem. Since 1948 the call for unity between Afrikaner and English has remained, but the race issue has become more and more focal. Race relations are a major preoccupation in Henry Gibb's four book saga: ""The Splendour and the Dust"" (1955), ""The Winds of Time"" (1956), ""Thunder at Dawn"" (1957) and ""The Tumult and the Shouting"" (1957), and Daphne Rooke's ""Mittee"" (1951). Most writers since 1948, with some notable exceptions, have treated the war largely as the backdrop for historical romance: Stuart Cloete, ""Rags of Glory"" (1963); Sam Manion, ""The Great Hunger"" (1964); Wilbur Smith, ""The Sound of Thunder"" (1966);"
"Clash (novel) Clash is a 1929 novel by the English socialist politician Ellen Wilkinson. It focuses on the clash between career and personal relationships, against the backdrop of the 1926 general strike. It was Wilkinson's first novel. It was republished by Trent Editions with a new introduction by Ian Haywood and Maroula Joannou in 1998. and is still in print. Ellen Wilkinson, the first woman Labour MP, is best remembered for leading a march of the unemployed from her constituency in Jarrow to London in 1936. Her first novel Clash is set a decade earlier, during the General Strike when"
"like his mother. ""I always meant to tell you, some day,"" he said tranquilly, ""what he does not know, and never will from me. He is my son."" This novel, like the rest of the series, is set during The Anarchy, a civil war which raged through England from 1135–1154. During the course of the story, King Stephen, having been captured by Robert of Gloucester at the Battle of Lincoln (February 1141), is now imprisoned in Bristol by the Empress Maud. The plot, which takes place in June 1141, also details the unsuccessful attempt by Maud and her brother Robert"
"Insurrection (Young novel) Insurrection is the first novel in Robyn Young's ""Insurrection"" trilogy, her fourth book overall, published on 14 October 2010 through Hodder and Stoughton. The story is based on the exploits of the historical Robert the Bruce. The novel is based around the Scottish Wars of Independence and in particular the actions of Robert the Bruce, set in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. ""Insurrection"" was well received, with reviewers praising the novels successful evocation of this little-documented period of the Middle Ages. Toby Clements, in a review for ""The Daily Telegraph"", stated that the novel is"
"set against the backdrop of an American mission trip. At times a romance, at times a kidnap thriller, but always a work of global social consciousness, it explores the potential for humanitarian aid to the world's poorest heart of darkness. His ""Two Cities"" (2017) is a bi-coastal political eco-thriller set in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. Before, during, and after the biggest protest march in modern history, two brothers must fight to put the world back together. As the title signals, this novel poses the literary question: """"""What would Dickens's ""A Tale of Two Cities"" read like if written in"
"However, writing ""Black August"" occupied him for forty weeks. In the novel he introduced the character Gregory Sallust, largely based on Gordon Eric Gordon-Tombe. Gordon-Tombe, whom Wheatley first met in 1917, introduced him to a hedonistic lifestyle, which they enjoyed together for a few years. Involved in illegal activities, Gordon-Tombe was murdered in 1922. 1934, when the novel appeared, was the time of the Great Depression in the United Kingdom, part of a worldwide economic depression. It had caused a political crisis and the formation of the National Government in the United Kingdom in 1931. The British Union of Fascists"
"Robert Charles riots in New Orleans in 1900. The book comments on Frances Harper's novel ""Iola Leroy"" and Booker T. Washington's famous Atlanta Address of 1895. Its criticism of the non-confrontational approach to race relations is expressed by the character of Dr. William Miller. The Marrow of Tradition The Marrow of Tradition (1901) is a historical novel by the African-American author Charles W. Chesnutt, set at the time and portraying a fictional account of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina. This story is a fictional account of the rise of the white supremacist movement, specifically as it"
"A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. ""A Christmas Carol"" recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. Dickens wrote ""A Christmas Carol"" during a period when the British were"
"Redgauntlet Redgauntlet (1824) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Dumfries, Scotland in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson (a point first made by Andrew Lang) as ""in a sense, the most autobiographical of Scott's novels."" It describes the beginnings of a fictional ""third"" Jacobite Rebellion, and includes ""Wandering Willie's Tale"", a famous short story which frequently appears in anthologies. The novel's hero is a young man named Darsie Latimer. Early in the novel he is kidnapped by Hugh Redgauntlet, and taken to a village in Dumfries. Darsie's friend Alan Fairford sets out to rescue him. After"
"Thackeray and Charles Dickens (in 1863 and 1870, respectively), Eliot was ""generally recognised as the greatest living English novelist"" at the time of the novel's final publication. ""Middlemarch"" is centred on the lives of the residents of Middlemarch, a fictitious Midlands town, from 1829 onwards—the years preceding the 1832 Reform Act. The narrative is variably considered to consist of three or four plots of unequal emphasis: the life of Dorothea Brooke; the career of Tertius Lydgate; the courtship of Mary Garth by Fred Vincy; and the disgrace of Nicholas Bulstrode. The two main plots are those of Dorothea and Lydgate."
"Cambridge riot of 1963 The Cambridge Riots of 1963, were race riots that occurred during the summer of 1963 in Cambridge, Maryland, a small town on the Eastern Shore. The riots emerged during the Civil Rights Movement, led by Gloria Richardson and the local chapter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and its opposition by pro-segregationist civilians and police. By January, Baltimore's Civic Interest Group (CIG) - an affiliate of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) - begins organizing sit-ins and freedom rides in towns along Maryland's Eastern Shore. When SNCC organizers arrive in Cambridge, demonstrations are organized downtown to"
"administration at Oakwood Junior College had demanded he burn many of his private books to demonstrate that he had given up radical politics. Bontemps refused to do so. He resigned from his teaching position and returned with his family to California in 1934. In 1936 Bontemps published what is considered as some of his best work, ""Black Thunder"". This novel recounts the tale of a rebellion that took place in 1800 near Richmond, Virginia led by Gabriel Prosser, an uneducated field worker and coachman. It shares Prosser's attempted plan to conduct a slave army to raid an armory in Richmond,"
"A Ripple from the Storm A Ripple in the Storm (1958) is the third novel in British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing five volume, semi-autobiographical, series, ""Children of Violence"". The first volume is ""Martha Quest"" (1952), and the others are, ""A Proper Marriage"" (1954), ""Landlocked"" (1965), and ""The Four-Gated City"" (1969). The Children of Violence series, follows the life of protagonist Martha Quest ""from girlhood to middle age"". ""A Ripple in the Storm"" describes the growth of a Communist group in a small town in Central Africa, ""as a result of the general mood of optimism, enthusiasm and admiration"
"lenders, the corruption and incompetence of the legal system, as well as of the administration of the Poor Law. Dickens was a fierce critic of the poverty and social stratification of Victorian society. In a New York address, he expressed his belief that, ""Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen."" Dickens's second novel, ""Oliver Twist"" (1839), shocked readers with its images of poverty and crime: it destroyed middle class polemics about criminals, making any pretence to ignorance about what poverty entailed impossible. Charles Dickens's ""Hard Times"" (1854) is set in"
"Gordon Riots The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days of rioting based on anti-Catholic feeling. They began with a massive and orderly protest in London against the Papists Act of 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics. Lord George Gordon, head of the Protestant Association warned that the law would enable Catholics in the British Army to become a dangerous threat. The protest evolved into riots and widespread looting. Local magistrates were afraid of reprisals and did not issue the riot act. There was no repression until the Army finally moved in and started shooting."
"Cletus' period, where his aide is nearly killed with one. Sonic cannons are also used as weapons. Childe Cycle The Childe Cycle is an unfinished series of science fiction novels by Canadian writer Gordon R. Dickson. The name Childe Cycle is an allusion to ""Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"", a poem by Robert Browning, which provided considerable inspiration for elements in Dickson's magnum opus. The series is sometimes referred to as the Dorsai series, as the Dorsai people are central to the series. The related short stories and novellas all center on the Dorsai, primarily members of the"