Paul Clifford

Paul Clifford is a novel published in 1830 by Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) who was an English novelist, playwright, and politician. It tells the life of Paul Clifford, a man who leads a dual life as both a criminal and an upscale gentleman.

• Paul Clifford tells the story of a chivalrous highwayman in the time of the French Revolution.
• This is the novel that first used the opening line It was a dark and stormy night...