Eugene Aram (novel)
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Eugene Aram is a melodramatic
Melodrama
The term melodrama refers to a dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions. It may also refer to the genre which includes such works, or to language, behavior, or events which resemble them...

 novel by the British writer Edward George Bulwer-Lytton first published in 1832. It depicts the events leading up to the execution of Eugene Aram
Eugene Aram
Eugene Aram was an English philologist, but also infamous as the murderer celebrated by Thomas Hood in his ballad, The Dream of Eugene Aram, and by Bulwer Lytton in his 1832 novel Eugene Aram.-Early life:...

in 1759 for murdering his business partner.
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