Charles Dickens

Barnaby Rudge: a Tale of the Riots of 'eighty Charles Dickens

Publisher Marketing: The late Mr Waterton having, some time ago, expressed his opinion that ravens are gradually becoming extinct in England, I offered the few following words about my experience of these birds. The raven in this story is a compound of two great originals, of whom I was, at different times, the proud possessor. The first was in the bloom of his youth, when he was discovered in a modest retirement in London, by a friend of mine, and given to me. He had from the first, as Sir Hugh Evans says of Anne Page, 'good gifts', which he improved by study and attention in a most exemplary manner. He slept in a stable-generally on horseback-and so terrified a Newfoundland dog by his preternatural sagacity, that he has been known, by the mere superiority of his genius, to walk off unmolested with the dog's dinner, from before his face. He was rapidly rising in acquirements and virtues, when, in an evil hour, his stable was newly painted. He observed the workmen closely, saw that they were careful of the paint, and immediately burned to possess it. On their going to dinner, he ate up all they had left behind, consisting of a pound or two of white lead; and this youthful indiscretion terminated in death. Review Citations: Library Journal 01/01/2006 pg. 175 (EAN 9780307262905, Hardcover) Library Journal 01/15/2006 (EAN 9780307262905, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/1995 pg. 170 (EAN 9780192545138, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2000 pg. 176 (EAN 9780192545138, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 246 (EAN 9780192545138, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 165 (EAN 9780192545138, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 215 (EAN 9780192545138, Hardcover) School Library Journal 08/01/1998 (EAN 9780553524949, Analog Audio Cassette) Contributor Bio:  Dickens, Charles Arguably one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens is the author of such literary masterpieces as A Tale of Two Cities (1859), A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield (1850), and The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1839), among many others. Dickens' s indelible characters and timeless stories continue to resonate with readers around the world more than 130 years after his death. Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870.