Burnaby Ridge

Afaq Publishing and Distribution presents, in a unique literary event for readers of the Arabic language, the first translation of the famous novel Barnaby Redneck, the first historical novel written by the great writer Charles Dickens, and the second is A Tale of Two Cities in 1859 AD, and no other historical novels were written by him. Although Dickens intended to publish it in one volume, circumstances forced him to issue it serially between February and November of the year 1841 AD, in the literary magazine "e;Mr. Humphrey's Hour,"e; which is the weekly literary miscellaneous magazine that began its publication the previous year. The novel comes to you in an excellent translation by Muhammad Salem Obada. The novel contains great writing, and is an important landmark in Dickens's artistic development. There is a new style to his writing that we sense throughout the length of this novel, and his professorship in blending and completing historical truth with fiction also appears in it. It presents characters from all classes of society, and succeeds in linking its characters - even the strangest of them - to real historical figures and events in the novel. By focusing on the people who are swept away by the collective action of the masses, he exposes this action before us, revealing the extent of its power and horror. The historical background of the novel is the notorious "e;No to the Papacy"e; riots. The one that terrorized London for several days in the early summer of 1780 AD.