Paul Clifford: A Highwayman Before the English Bench
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough and Joseph Wright of Derby. A boy raised in a tavern becomes a gentleman of the road, and the novel's real target is the bench that will one day try him: Bulwer-Lytton wrote it to argue that England hanged the poor for what it forgave in the rich. It opens with the seven words he never lived down — It was a dark and stormy night — and it helped change the criminal law it mocked. Sixty plates of painting from 1728 to 1850, including Gainsborough and Delacroix, gather the road, the tavern, and the shore into a single gallery of the highwayman's world.
Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough and Joseph Wright of Derby. A boy raised in a tavern becomes a gentleman of the road, and the novel's real target is the bench that will one day try him: Bulwer-Lytton wrote it to argue that England hanged t...
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, playwright and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies and later Baron Lytton. Enormously popular in his day, he coined several phrases that outlived his reputation. His works include Pelham, The Last Days of Pompeii, Ernest Maltravers, and The Coming Race.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, playwright and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies and later Baron Lytton. Enormously popular in his day, he coined several phrases that outlived his reputation. His works include Pelham, The Last Days of Pompeii, Ernest Maltra...
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