Barnaby Rudge (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By Charles Dickens

First published serially beginning in 1841, this historical novel by Dickens is set in London during the Gordon riots of 1780.  Desperate to prevent the marriage of his niece, Emma, to Edward Chester, Geoffrey Haredale enters into a doomed alliance with Edward's untrustworthy father, John.  Murder and blackmail result.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Feb 8, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411436060

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.