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The Baker's Tale: Ruby Spriggs and the Legacy of Charles Dickens

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Antonio runs a bakery in the fashionable area of London, yet still he is distressed by the poverty he sees all around him: “But among the poor, ignorance is a greater curse than plague or fire. There the divide between the classes looms large. The absence of learning and want of knowledge is a constant cause of misery among the downtrodden. Ignorance is the reason the poor live - that is to say, they have not yet died - in ruinous places on dangerous streets that are avoided by all but those who live there.” Mentored in his youth by the wealthy patron Octavius Joy, Antonio was apprenticed to a baker and able to improve his station through this opportunity. So his heart is deeply moved when, on a frigid winter’s night, Christopher Spriggs and his four-year-old niece Ruby —characters that we first met in The Final Recollections of Charles Dickens — arrive on his doorstep. Having suffered the loss of her mother one year previous, the child is in desperate need of food, shelter, and as Antonio can feel firsthand, a way out of their crushing poverty.

He takes them both under his wing and watches as they blossom under his tutelage. Ruby grows into a smart, precocious teenager, instilled with a love of books and learning by the everpresent Octavius Joy. But she’ll discover that a life of learning and comfort and security is not enough of a barrier against the machinations of life in nineteenth century London, and soon she’ll have new challenges to face to become the woman her mother wanted her to be.

With gorgeous prose brimming with the atmosphere of historical London, The Legacy of Charles Dickens is wonderfully infused with everything the famous author believed in: education, literacy, the need to support the lower classes, and the redemption found in the strong bond of community. The novel is filled with the influence of his journalism and his classic Oliver Twist, as well as a deeply felt love story, an unpleasant villain, a full range of other Dickensian characters, and the unequaled passion of Dickens’s social conscience.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Release: December 08, 2015

ISBN 13: 9781619025981

The Baker's Tale: Ruby Spriggs and the Legacy of Charles Dickens

0/5 ( ratings)

Antonio runs a bakery in the fashionable area of London, yet still he is distressed by the poverty he sees all around him: “But among the poor, ignorance is a greater curse than plague or fire. There the divide between the classes looms large. The absence of learning and want of knowledge is a constant cause of misery among the downtrodden. Ignorance is the reason the poor live - that is to say, they have not yet died - in ruinous places on dangerous streets that are avoided by all but those who live there.” Mentored in his youth by the wealthy patron Octavius Joy, Antonio was apprenticed to a baker and able to improve his station through this opportunity. So his heart is deeply moved when, on a frigid winter’s night, Christopher Spriggs and his four-year-old niece Ruby —characters that we first met in The Final Recollections of Charles Dickens — arrive on his doorstep. Having suffered the loss of her mother one year previous, the child is in desperate need of food, shelter, and as Antonio can feel firsthand, a way out of their crushing poverty.

He takes them both under his wing and watches as they blossom under his tutelage. Ruby grows into a smart, precocious teenager, instilled with a love of books and learning by the everpresent Octavius Joy. But she’ll discover that a life of learning and comfort and security is not enough of a barrier against the machinations of life in nineteenth century London, and soon she’ll have new challenges to face to become the woman her mother wanted her to be.

With gorgeous prose brimming with the atmosphere of historical London, The Legacy of Charles Dickens is wonderfully infused with everything the famous author believed in: education, literacy, the need to support the lower classes, and the redemption found in the strong bond of community. The novel is filled with the influence of his journalism and his classic Oliver Twist, as well as a deeply felt love story, an unpleasant villain, a full range of other Dickensian characters, and the unequaled passion of Dickens’s social conscience.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Release: December 08, 2015

ISBN 13: 9781619025981

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