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Barnaby Rudge : With the Original Illustration / Charles Dickens ; Edited by Clive Hurst ; With an Introduction and Notes by Iain McCalman and Jon Mee. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - XLVIII, 702 strony : ilustracje, mapy ; 20 cm.

(Oxford World's Classics - Oxford University Press)

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Dickens, Charles (1812-1870). Hurst, Clive. McCalman, Iain. Mee, Jon.

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Na okładce: Cover illustration: based on No Popery or Newgate Reformer, 1780, by Gillray.

'What dark history is this?' This is the question that hangs over Dickens's brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century. Set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, Barnaby Rudge tells a story of individuals caught up in the mindless violence of the mob. Lord George Gordon's dangerous appeal to old religious prejudices is interwoven with the murder mystery surrounding the father of the simple-minded Barnaby. The discovery of the murderer and his involvement in the riots put Barnaby's life in jeopardy. Culminating in the terrifying destruction of Newgate prison by the rampaging hordes, the descriptions of the riots are among Dickens's most powerful. Written at a time of social unrest in Victorian Britain, Barnaby Rudge explores the relationship between repression and liberation in private and public life. It looks forward to the dark complexities of Dickens's later novels, whose characters also seek refuge from a chaotic and unstable world.

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Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark / Mary Wollstonecraft ; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Tone Brekke and Jon Mee. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - XLI, 195 stron : mapa ; 20 cm.

(Oxford World's Classics - Oxford University Press)

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Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797). Brekke, Tone. Mee, Jon.

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Na okładce: Cover illustration: detail from Boydell's Picturesque Scenery of Norway (Oslofjord). Drawing by John William Edy.

Tytuł okładkowy: Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.

William Godwin, the author's future husband, was not alone in admiring Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Wollstonecraft's most popular book during her lifetime. Not easy to categorize, it is both an arresting travel book and a moving exploration of her personal and political selves. Wollstonecraft set out for Scandinavia just two weeks after her first suicide attempt, on a mission from the lover whose affections she doubted, to recover his silver on a ship that had gone missing. With her baby daughter and a nursemaid, she travelled across the dramatic landscape and wrote sublime descriptions of the natural world, and the events and people she encountered. What emerges most vividly is Wollstonecraft's courage and ability to look beyond her own suffering to the turmoil around her in revolutionary Europe, and a better future. This edition includes further material on the silver ship, Wollstonecraft's personal letters to Imlay during her trip, an extract from Godwin's memoir, and a selection of contemporary reviews.

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