Dedicate to: "The great German People, a Race of Thinkers and Critics." Maltravers is the Man of Genius amidst those fierce but ennobling struggles with poverty and want which geniuses are so often condemned.
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The first part of a wonderfully romantic tale.,
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"Ernest Maltravers" is the first part of a series written around 1834 and 1835 by Edward Lord Lytton Bulwer, The sequel or second part is "Alice or the Mysteries" also available from Amazon. This is a remarkably tender story of a wealthy aristocratic young man Ernest Maltravers, who meets, becomes a guardian for and falls in love with a poor innocent and uneducated young beautiful girl Alice. Her father happens to be a very bad apple from whom she flees, after he tries to rob and murder Maltravers, who first meets Alice when he stops at their cottage when he is lost. Alice warns Ernest of his peril and he escapes. Her father beats her and she runs away and finds Ernest and lives with him. Feeling indebted to ALice for saving his life, he cares for her and hires a tutor for her to educate her. He then falls in love with her. She does not know his real name, since he is going by an alias since they are living together, Ernest has to leave for a while, when he reads in a newspaper that his father is dying. During the time Ernest is gone Alice's father and a crony rob houses and rob Ernest's house and kidnap Alice. Ernest returns and is broken hearted to find her gone without a trace. He does not know also that she is now carrying his child. The books then tell of the next 18 years from then as they go through life and try to find each other again. Neither one ever finds a love that they shared with anyone else. I wont tell you if they find each other again. Buy the books and read and enjoy Bulwer's enchanting prose and his outstanding story. This would make a great movie!
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SOME four miles distant from one of our northern manufacturing towns, in the year 18-was a wide and desolate common; a more dreary spot it is impossible to conceive-the herbage grew up in sickly patches from the midst of a black and stony soil. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Florence, Ernest Maltravers, Florence Lascelles, Madame de Ventadour, Lumley Ferrers, Lady Vargrave, Lord Doningdale, Lord Vargrave, Alice Darvil, Luke Darvil, Madame de Montaigne, Lord Staunch, Lord Taunton, Castruccio Cesarini, Signor Cesarini, Temple Grove, Lisle Court, Valerie de Ventadour, Colonel Danvers, George Herbert, John Walters, Lord Latimer, Seamore Place, Monsieur de Ventadour New!
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SOME four miles distant from one of our northern manufacturing towns, in the year 18-was a wide and desolate common; a more dreary spot it is impossible to conceive-the herbage grew up in sickly patches from the midst of a black and stony soil. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Florence, Ernest Maltravers, Florence Lascelles, Madame de Ventadour, Lumley Ferrers, Lady Vargrave, Lord Doningdale, Lord Vargrave, Alice Darvil, Luke Darvil, Madame de Montaigne, Lord Staunch, Lord Taunton, Castruccio Cesarini, Signor Cesarini, Temple Grove, Lisle Court, Valerie de Ventadour, Colonel Danvers, George Herbert, John Walters, Lord Latimer, Seamore Place, Monsieur de Ventadour New!
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