The Beneficent Burglar - Buck, Charles Neville
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The beneficent burglar explores social conventions through a comic lens, focusing on how personal desires often clash with expectations imposed by family and community. It presents a world where reputation and duty are frequently at odds with emotion and spontaneity. The story uses misunderstandings and unexpected consequences to reveal the fragile balance between control and chaos. While characters navigate romantic complications, their choices reflect a broader critique of rigid customs surrounding love and status. Through a sequence of misadventures, the narrative illustrates how quick…mehr

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The beneficent burglar explores social conventions through a comic lens, focusing on how personal desires often clash with expectations imposed by family and community. It presents a world where reputation and duty are frequently at odds with emotion and spontaneity. The story uses misunderstandings and unexpected consequences to reveal the fragile balance between control and chaos. While characters navigate romantic complications, their choices reflect a broader critique of rigid customs surrounding love and status. Through a sequence of misadventures, the narrative illustrates how quick thinking, missteps, and the actions of unlikely allies can reshape one s future. The novel favors impulse over strategy, emphasizing that the pursuit of love can override reason. It portrays life as unpredictable and often absurd, using humor to expose how rules are bent when individuals are driven by deep attachment. Beneath its lively surface, the book considers how genuine emotion can challenge the structures meant to contain it, turning a simple quest into a larger reflection on freedom and connection.
Autorenporträt
Charles Neville Buck was an American author who lived from April 15, 1879, to August 10, 1957. Many of his books were turned into plays and movies during the silent film era. A boy named him was born in Woodford County, Kentucky. As a child, Charles William Buck worked in Peru for President Grover Cleveland and wrote a book called Under the Sun about the Inca time. His grandpa on his mom's side was the dean of the medical school at the University of Kentucky. Buck was born near Midway, Kentucky. He grew up in Kentucky, except for the four years he spent in South America with his dad. In 1898, Buck got his degree from the University of Louisville. He writes stories about the mountain guys of Kentucky and the things they do. His first job was as a cartoonist for a year. After that, he worked as a writer in Kentucky for several years. He went to New York City when his writing career took off. He got married and bought a summer home in Orleans, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod.