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bTitle:/b Pelham, 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 around 14 million books, along with substantial additio...

bTitle:/b The New Timon, St. Stephen's, and the Lost Tales of Miletus.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 ...

You must often have felt, gentlemen, -- each and all of you, -- especially when sitting alone at night, a strange and unaccountable sensation of coldness and awe creep over you, your blood curdles, and the heart stands still, the limbs shiver, the hair bristles, you are afraid to look up, to turn your eyes to the darker corners of the room, you have a horrible fancy that something unearthly is at hand. Presently the whole spell, if I may so ca...

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 ...

Lucretia, or, The Children of Night, was begun simultaneously with The Caxtons: a Family Picture. The two fictions were intended as pendants, both serving, amongst other collateral aims and objects, to show the influence of home education, of early circumstance and example, upon after character and conduct. Lucretia was completed and published before The Caxtons. The moral design of the first was misunderstood and assailed, that of the last wa...

One of the peculiarities of Bulwer was his passion for occult studies. They had a charm for him early in life, and he pursued them with the earnestness which characterized his pursuit of other studies. He became absorbed in wizard lore, he equipped himself with magical implements, -- with rods for transmitting influence, and crystal balls in which to discern coming scenes and persons, and communed with spiritualists and mediums. The fruit of t...

Bulwer-Lytton is legend nowadays for the qualities of his prose: but we find his prose attractive, in its languid way, and certainly the man was a profound thinker. "Vril" is a mysterious energy used by Lytton's subterranean race -- refugees from the deluge that submerged Atlantis -- to power their advanced civilization. Generations of occultists have mistaken this bit of business for something other than fiction, and still more generations of...

Classic Victorian tale of the last days of Pompeii, doomed city that lay at the feet of Mount Vesuvius. From poets to flower-girls, gladiators to Roman tribunes, here is a plausible story of their lives, their loves, and the tragic fate that awaited them.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed, " and "the pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed, " and "the pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed, " and "the pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed, " and "the pen is mightier than the sword.

Classic Victorian tale of the last days of Pompeii, doomed city that lay at the feet of Mount Vesuvius. From poets to flower-girls, gladiators to Roman tribunes, here is a plausible story of their lives, their loves, and the tragic fate that awaited them.

Pelham's a fine tale, but mostly it's remarkable as a classic "Fashionable Novel" -- in its day, the Fashionable Novel was a genre unto itself, focusing on the manners, habits and lifestyles of the Rich and Famous of the first half of the 19th century -- the jet set of its day. Pelham's sparkling cynicism makes fun of the genre as it executes it gorgeously, it also sheds an amazing light on a time and circumnstance well removed from our own.

. . . having had occasion to read the original authorities from which modern historians have drawn their accounts of the life of Rienzi, I was led to believe that a very remarkable man had been superficially judged, and a very important period crudely examined. And this belief was sufficiently strong to induce me at first to meditate a more serious work upon the life and times of Rienzi. I have taken a view of his character different in some r...

Bulwer-Lytton is legend nowadays for the qualities of his prose: but we find his prose attractive, in its languid way, and certainly the man was a profound thinker. "Vril" is a mysterious energy used by Lytton's subterranean race -- refugees from the deluge that submerged Atlantis -- to power their advanced civilization. Generations of occultists have mistaken this bit of business for something other than fiction, and still more generations of...

One of the peculiarities of Bulwer was his passion for occult studies. They had a charm for him early in life, and he pursued them with the earnestness which characterized his pursuit of other studies. He became absorbed in wizard lore, he equipped himself with magical implements, -- with rods for transmitting influence, and crystal balls in which to discern coming scenes and persons, and communed with spiritualists and mediums. The fruit of t...