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A friend of mine once said to a millionaire, whom he saw forever engaged in making money which he never seemed to have any pleasure in spending, "Pray, Mr. --------, will you answer me one question: You are said to have two millions, and you spend 600 pounds a year. In order to rest and enjoy, what will content you?" -- "A little more, " answered the millionaire. That "little more" is the mainspring of civilization. Nobody ever gets it! . . . ...

Captain Roland leaned his cheek on his hand, and gazed abstractedly on the fire, Mr. Squills fell into a placid doze, and, after three sighs that would have melted a heart of stone, I rushed into -- MY NOVEL. . . . Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's classic, First of Five volumes

And do you think, my lord, that Mr. Maltravers has never to this day ascertained what became of the poor young woman?" "Why, let me see, -- what was her name?" The magistrate thought a moment, and replied, "Alice Darvil." "Alice!" exclaimed Vargrave. "Alice!" -- aware that such was the Christian name of his uncle's wife, and now almost convinced of the truth of his first vague suspicion. "You seem to know the name?" "Of Alice, yes -- but not D...

Of course, according to the most obvious principles of art, the narrator of a fiction must be as thoroughly in earnest as if he were the narrator of facts. One could not tell the most extravagant fairy-tale so as to rouse and sustain the attention of the most infantine listener, if the tale were told as if the taleteller did not believe in it. But when the reader lays down this "Strange Story, " perhaps he will detect, through all the haze of ...

The Tragicomedy of Court Intrigue, which had ever found its principal theater in Spain since the accession of the House of Austria to the throne, was represented with singular complication of incident and brilliancy of performance during the reign of Philip the Third. That monarch, weak, indolent, and superstitious, left the reins of government in the hands of the Duke of Lerma. The Duke of Lerma, in his turn, mild, easy, ostentatious, and sha...

This novel was begun somewhere in the third year of my authorship, and completed in the fourth. It was, therefore, composed almost simultaneously with EUGENE ARAM, and afforded to me at least some relief from the gloom of that village tragedy. It is needless to observe how dissimilar in point of scene, character, and fable, the one is from the other, yet they are alike in this -- that both attempt to deal with one of the most striking problems...

All that was once turbid, heating, unwholesome in the current of sentiment which flows through this history of a guilty passion, "Death's immortalizing winter" has chilled and purified. The book is now a harmless, and, it may be hoped, a not uninteresting, evidence of the precocity of its author's genius. As such, it is here reprinted.

I must own that I have but inadequately struggled against the great and obvious difficulty of representing an author living in our own times, with whose supposed works or alleged genius and those of anyone actually existing, the reader can establish no identification, and he is therefore either compelled constantly to humor the delusion by keeping his imagination on the stretch, or lazily driven to confound the Author IN the Book with the Auth...

About the Book Books on the History of Ancient Rome follow the birth of Roman civilization from the 8th century BC to the fall of the Western Empire around 450 AD. During this period Rome experienced its Kingdom, Republic and Empire phases until its eventual decline and fall. Titles in this category include: The reign of Antoninus Pius, Early Rome: from the foundation of the city to its destruction by the Gauls, Judas Maccabæus, and the Jewish...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

About the Book Books about Fairy Tales and Folklore for Juveniles is a very popular genre among adolescents because of the imaginary worlds that these stories portray. Titles in this category include: The Fairy Who Believed in Human Beings, Han's Andersen's Stories, Muriel's Dreamland: A Fairy Tale, Grandmama's nursery stories, Danish fairy tales, Japanese Fairy Tales, Jolly Calle & other Swedish fairy tales, The Russian garland of fairy tales...

Das Buch, mit dem Arno Schmidt sich von >Zettel's Traum< erholteFinstermänner aus Londons Unterwelt, verlorene Söhne und verzeihende Väter, halbgelehrte Handwerker, stotternde Prediger, Wanderschauspieler und fahrendes Volk, zarte Kindsbräute und verliebte Ladys, die Frau in Eisengrau, Lady Frost und Pudel Toby: Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Zeitgenosse und Freund von Charles Dickens, entfaltet in diesem umfangreichen Roman das bunte Panorama der vikt...

Edward George Bulwer schrieb im Jahre 1834 den historischen Roman Die letzten Tage von Pompeji. Ein Jahr darauf erschien die erste deutsche Übersetzung dieser literarischen Sensation, die bis heute an Attraktivität nichts eingebüßt hat.So gehört sein historischer Roman einerseits zum populären Literaturkanon des Italien- bzw. Pompeji-Reisenden, andererseits zum beliebten Stoff von Drehbuchautoren und Filmregisseuren von den Kindertagen des Fil...

bTitle:/b The Parisians ... With illustrations by S. Hall. [With a prefatory note by E. R. B. Lytton.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more....

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bTitle:/b Lucretia, or, the Children of Night. By the author of "Rienzi" [ie. Lord Lytton.] ... Second edition, to which is prefixed a word to the public.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound reco...

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bTitle:/b A Strange Story. By the author of "Rienzi" [i.e. Lord Lytton], etc.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include ...

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bTitle:/b Ernest Maltravers.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial a...