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Page viii - Correction and the Condemned Cell. A second and a lighter object in the novel of " Paul Clifford " (and hence the introduction of a semi-burlesque or travesty in the earlier chapters) was to show that there is nothing essentially different between vulgar vice and fashionable vice, and that the slang of the one circle is but an easy paraphrase of the cant of the other.
London: Colburn and Bentley, 1830. Synopsis of Paul Clifford. "It was a dark and stormy night." No, seriously, it was, and this is the famous novel that starts out that way. On this night, the novel's hero, three-year-old Paul Clifford, experiences the death of his mother; a character that the reader is led to believe was a prostitute.
Paul Clifford tells the story of a chivalrous highwayman in the time of the French Revolution. Brought up not knowing his origins, he falls in with a gang of highwaymen. While disguised as a gentleman for the purposes of a confidence trick, he meets and falls in love with Lucy Brandon.
This novel so far differs from the other fictions by the same author that it seeks to draw its interest rather from practical than ideal sources. Out of some twelve Novels or Romances, embracing, however inadequately, a great variety of scene and character, -- from PELHAM to the PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE, from RIENZI to the LAST DAYS OF POMPEII, -- PAUL CLIFFORD is the _only one_ in which a robber ...
This novel so far differs from the other fictions by the same author that it seeks to draw its interest rather from practical than ideal sources. Out of some twelve Novels or Romances, embracing, however inadequately, a great variety of scene and character, -- from PELHAM to the PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE, from RIENZI to the LAST DAYS OF POMPEII, -- PAUL CLIFFORD is the _only one_ in which a robber ...
10 de set. de 2023 · Summary of the book: "Paul Clifford" is a novel by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, published in 1830. It tells the story of the eponymous character, Paul Clifford, a young man who turns to a life of ...
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