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Ernest Maltravers (Volume V)

Ernest Maltravers (Volume V)

Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Baron

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 9354943179
ISBN13: 9789354943171
Publisher: Alpha Ed
Published: Aug 17 2021
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A thrilling ascent and a perilous fall, written with the sweeping confidence of a master storyteller. Ernest Maltravers glides between glittering salons and shadowed streets, where ambition and secrecy collide and the heart must answer to both desire and duty. This volume offers more than a readable hark back to victorian england; it is a careful blend of aristocratic ambition and scandal, moral downfall and redemption, and a sharp social critique that reverberates through the ages. From political intrigue to the subtle traps of london victorian society, Bulwer Lytton's mingling of intimate longing with public consequence powers a nineteenth century gothic drama that rewards patient reading and rich discussion. The work bears the influence of the era's greatest voices-Edgar Allan Poe's atmosphere and Thackeray's keen social satire-while remaining accessible to contemporary readers, all within a crime-and-courtly-court setting that invites a scholarly classics reading list to sit beside a thrilling romance. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this edition is restored for today's and future generations. It is not a mere reprint but a collector edition recommendation and a cultural treasure, ideal for both casual readers seeking a deft, emotionally charged narrative and classic-literature lovers assembling a refined shelf of nineteenth-century route to modern sensibilities.

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