The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 06
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In addition to being a politician, he wrote across all genres, from horror stories to historical fiction and action titles.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, engl. Romanschriftsteller und Politiker, ist bekannt geworden durch seine populären historischen/metaphysischen und unvergleichlichen Romane wie „Zanoni“, „Rienzi“, „Die letzten Tage von Pompeji“ und „Das kommende Geschlecht“. Ihm wird die Mitgliedschaft in der sagenumwobenen Gemeinschaft der Rosenkreuzer nachgesagt. 1852 wurde er zum Kolonialminister von Großbritannien ernannt.
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The Caxtons - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
THE CAXTONS: A FAMILY PICTURE — VOLUME 06
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART VI.: CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 06
By
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 06
Published by Yurita Press
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First published circa 1873
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PART VI.: CHAPTER I.
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I don’t know that,
said my father.
What is it my father does not know? My father does not know that happiness is our being’s end and aim.
And pertinent to what does my father reply, by words so sceptical, to an assertion so seldom disputed?
Reader, Mr. Trevanion has been half an hour seated in our little drawing-room. He has received two cups of tea from my mother’s fair hand; he has made himself at home. With Mr. Trevanion has come another friend of my father’s, whom he has not seen since he left college,—Sir Sedley Beaudesert.
Now, you must understand that it is a warm night, a little after nine o’clock,—a night between departing summer and approaching autumn. The windows are open; we have a balcony, which my