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Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

  • Adventure
  • Book language: English
  • 466 pages

Paul Clifford is an adventure novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It follows a robber as its hero and uses his story to draw attention to prison discipline and the harsh criminal code of the time. It is worth listening to for its blend of adventure and social critique.

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Opening of the book

PAUL CLIFFORD
By Edward Bulwer-Lytton
TOMLINSONIANA
PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1840.
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

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Contents

  1. PAUL CLIFFORD
  2. PAUL CLIFFORD.

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