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    Ernest Maltravers — Volume 02
    Ernest Maltravers — Volume 02
    Ernest Maltravers — Volume 02
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    Ernest Maltravers — Volume 02

    By Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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    Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a well known English novelist in the 19th century, and he's been immortalized for coining famous phrases like  "pursuit of the almighty dollar" and "the pen is mightier than the sword".


    In addition to being a politician, he wrote across all genres, from horror stories to historical fiction and action titles.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKrill Press
    Release dateDec 24, 2015
    ISBN9781518346170
    Ernest Maltravers — Volume 02
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    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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      Ernest Maltravers — Volume 02 - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

      ERNEST MALTRAVERS — VOLUME 02

      ..................

      Edward Bulwer-Lytton

      YURITA PRESS

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      This book is a work of fiction; its contents are wholly imagined.

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      Copyright © 2015 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      BOOK II.

      CHAPTER I.

      CHAPTER II.

      CHAPTER III.

      CHAPTER IV.

      CHAPTER V.

      Ernest Maltravers — Volume 02

      By

      Edward Bulwer-Lytton

      Ernest Maltravers — Volume 02

      Published by Yurita Press

      New York City, NY

      First published circa 1873

      Copyright © Yurita Press, 2015

      All rights reserved

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      BOOK II.

      ..................

      CHAPTER I.

      ..................

      * There certainly was something singular in my sentiments for this charming woman.

      IT was a brilliant ball at the Palazzo of the Austrian embassy at Naples: and a crowd of those loungers, whether young or old, who attach themselves to the reigning beauty, was gathered round Madame de Ventadour. Generally speaking, there is more caprice than taste in the election of a beauty to the Italian throne. Nothing disappoints a stranger more than to see for the first time the woman to whom the world has given the golden apple. Yet he usually falls at last into the popular idolatry, and passes with inconceivable rapidity from indignant scepticism into superstitious veneration. In fact, a thousand things beside mere symmetry of feature go to make up the Cytherea of the hour. —tact in society—the charm of manner—nameless and piquant brilliancy. Where the world find the Graces they proclaim the Venus. Few persons attain pre-eminent celebrity for anything, without some adventitious and extraneous circumstances which have nothing to do with the thing celebrated. Some qualities or some circumstances throw a mysterious or personal charm about them. Is Mr. So-and-So really such a genius? Is Mrs. Such-a-One really such a beauty? you ask incredulously. Oh, yes, is the answer. Do you know all about him or her? Such a thing is said, or such a thing has happened. The idol is interesting in itself, and therefore its leading and popular attribute is worshipped.

      Now Madame de

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