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Hace 3 días · 300–700. The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days of rioting in London motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment. They began with a large and orderly protest against the Papists Act 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics enacted by the Popery Act 1698. Lord George Gordon, head of the Protestant ...
- 2–9 June 1780
- 300–700
Hace 3 días · First track, side one on the Rolling Stones first LP - written by, Bobby Troup. I nearly wore through this record; I played it incessantly to consternation o...
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- Colin Eastwood
Hace 2 días · Poe's genius for analysis, which shines so conspicuously, in some of his marvelous tales fitted him well for one portion of the merit of “Barnaby Rudge,” which he reviewed fresh from the presses, but his clear and minute analysis of that work, in which he pointed out innumerable details of its construction, and faults due to the manner of its publication in monthly parts, is as interesting ...
Hace 3 días · Dickens – who was born in Portsmouth in 1812 and died in 1870, aged 58, at Gads Hill Place. – named his horses after his characters, including Newman Noggs from Nicholas Nickleby. Grip, a talking raven, was a character in the novel Barnaby Rudge, with literary experts believing horror writer Edgar Allan Poe wrote his 1845 poem, The Raven ...
Who is the illustrator of this from The Old Curiosity Shop? According to my edition, OCS had two original illustrators: George Cattermole and Phiz (aka Hablot Knight Brown). It doesn’t specify who did which, but I’m guessing it was Phiz because it looks more like his style.
Hace 4 días · Anonymous. Read most but not all of Dickens novels (I haven't yet read Barnaby Rudge or Martin Chuzzlewit or Edwin Drood). My 3 favorites are Our Mutual Friend, Bleak House and Little Dorrit, with OMF being my favorite of all (Lizzie Hexam is his best female character and it's a great satire of "new money" in the class system). While it's not ...
Hace 4 días · Uncommon 30-volume hardcover collection of the works of Charles Dickens, unsigned, published by The Athenaeum Society of New York and electrotyped and printed by the Colonial Press of Boston, undated. Each volume, 5.75 x 8.25, is half-bound in burgundy morocco with marbled boards, top edge gilt, and gilt titles on the spines.
