Barnaby Rudge - Softcover

Dickens, Mr Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1535412208 ISBN 13: 9781535412209

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1841

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 1841
• ISBN 10: 1535412208
• ISBN 13: 9781535412209
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 460