Paul Clifford: A Highwayman Before the English Bench

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.

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E-bog: 16. september 2026