my Novel" — Volume 11
1853
Volume 11 of Bulwer-Lytton's sweeping Victorian novel finds Randal Leslie at the apex of his scheming, his sharp intellect now fully weaponized against a society he perceives as having denied him his rightful place. Audley Egerton, the former statesman, watches his influence crumble like the establishment that once elevated him, his political exile a quiet death far more agonizing than any public defeat. Between them stands Leonard Fairfield, earnest and struggling, a counterpoint to the cynicism that has consumed the others. The novel's eleventh volume turns its gaze toward hate not as a violent outburst but as a civilized poison, carefully administered in drawing rooms and political chambers where men destroy each other with handshakes and coded language. Bulwer-Lytton understood that modern society had refined emotion into something far more dangerous than passion ever was: it had learned to kill with kindness. This volume is for readers who crave psychological depth beneath their historical fiction, who want to understand how ambition curdles when it meets resistance, and how the deadliest battles are fought without a single raised voice.
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