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The Beneficent Burglar

The Beneficent Burglar

Buck, Charles Neville

Paperback

General Parenting

Publisher Price: $13.99

ISBN10: 9371818816
ISBN13: 9789371818810
Publisher: Double 9 Books
Published: Aug 1 2025
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The beneficent burglar explores social conventions through a comic lens, focusing on how personal desires often clash with expectations imposed by family and community. It presents a world where reputation and duty are frequently at odds with emotion and spontaneity. The story uses misunderstandings and unexpected consequences to reveal the fragile balance between control and chaos. While characters navigate romantic complications, their choices reflect a broader critique of rigid customs surrounding love and status. Through a sequence of misadventures, the narrative illustrates how quick thinking, missteps, and the actions of unlikely allies can reshape one s future. The novel favors impulse over strategy, emphasizing that the pursuit of love can override reason. It portrays life as unpredictable and often absurd, using humor to expose how rules are bent when individuals are driven by deep attachment. Beneath its lively surface, the book considers how genuine emotion can challenge the structures meant to contain it, turning a simple quest into a larger reflection on freedom and connection.

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