Paul Clifford

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 d...