The Caxtons, (Volume X)

The Caxtons, (Volume X)

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Alpha Editions
Año de edición:
2021
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9789354845789
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A glass of moral courage and social observation in one sweeping Victorian novel. The Caxtons (Volume X) invites you into a mid nineteenth-century world of family ties, public virtue, and private longing.This restored edition by Alpha Editions makes a neglected treasure feel immediate and relevant. The Caxtons is a richly plotted family saga that threads inheritance, ambition, and duty through a careful mirror of Victorian England. It speaks in a voice that fans of Dickens often recognise, with a touch of Thackeray’s irony, offering a human-scale portrait of ambition tempered by responsibility. The novel blends social novel immediacy with intimate family drama, inviting both casual readers and literature students to explore how character and circumstance shape a life.Historically significant as a landmark of late Georgian and Victorian culture, the work helps illuminate the era’s class tensions, moral calculations, and evolving notions of respectability. This edition is more than a reprint; it is a collector’s item and a cultural treasure, restored for today’s and future generations who seek to understand how literature can critique society while revealing the tenderness of ordinary lives. Thoughtful readers will find in The Caxtons a satisfying rung on the ladder from Victorian england to contemporary moral questions, a book club favourite and a reliable literature student guide in one confident volume.

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