Paul Clifford — Volume 01

This novel so far differs from the other fictions by the same author that it seeks to draw its interest rather from practical than ideal sources. Out of some twelve Novels or Romances, embracing, however inadequately, a great variety of scene and character, --from Pelham to the Pilgrims of the Rhine, from Rienzi to the Last Days of Pompeii, Paul Clifford is the only one in which a robber has been made the hero, or the peculiar phases of life which he illustrates have been brought into any prominent description.