Questions tagged [paul-clifford]
Questions related to the 1830 novel Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Use this tag with the [edward-bulwer-lytton] tag.
1
question
5
votes
1answer
641 views
Was "It was a dark and stormy night" deliberately purple prose?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel Paul Clifford is most famous for its opening phrase, "It was a dark and stormy night". Today, this phrase is seen as a textbook example of purple prose - writing which is ...
