Book description
'It was a dark and stormy night ...'
Paul Clifford leads a double life. By day he is a fashionable man
about town, the toast of genteel society. By night, he is 'Captain
Lovett', a dashing masked highwayman, robbing unsuspecting travellers
on moonlit roads with his band of fellow brigands.
When Clifford falls in love with the beautiful, auburn-haired Lucy,
the daughter of a wealthy squire, he wonders if he should abandon his
life of vice. But there are many obstacles in his path: his sly love
rival Lord Mauleverer, dark secrets from the past, and the threat of
the hangman's noose ...
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (25 May, 1803-18 January, 1873), was an English
novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid,
popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great
unwashed", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the
infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night."
