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Published in 1838, “Alice, or The Mysteries” picks up the story of the disenchanted poet-gone-politician-gone-recluse Ernest Maltravers, his early love Alice Darvil and his underhanded antagonist Lumley Ferrers. Whereas, after Florence Lascelles’s death, Ernest has withdrawn from the world, everythi... More

From Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth to Rudy Rucker's The Hollow Earth, subterranean worlds have been a source of both fascination and fear for the literary imagination, and The Coming Race is no exception. An evolutionary fantasy first published in 1871, the story draws upon ideas ... More

In two novels, Zanoni (1842) and A Strange Story (1862), Bulwer-Lytton invented the Occult/Dark Fantasy subgenre (as opposed to other subgenres of fantasy like Tolkienian High Fantasy). Academic critics usually describe Zanoni as a künstlerroman (novel of the maturation of an artist) and as an alleg... More

The Caxtons: A Family Picture (Complete) is an 1849 Victorian novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that was popular in its time.... More

Excerpt: "In the gardens at Naples, one summer evening in the last century, some four or five gentlemen were seated under a tree drinking their sherbet and listening, in the intervals of conversation, to the music which enlivened that gay and favorite resort of an indolent population. One of this li... More

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, originally published in 1837, is the most important and readable of the Victorian histories of ancient Greece. It stands alongside Macauley and Carlyle as a great historical work of British Romanticism, and anticipates the thinking of George Grote and John Stuart Mill on G... More

The Coming Race draws upon ideas of Darwinism to describe a near-future world characterized by female dominance, physical perfection, and vast technological progress.... More

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, 1. Baron Lytton (* 25. Mai 1803 in London; † 18. Januar 1873 in Torquay) war ein englischer Romanautor und Politiker des 19. Jahrhunderts. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)... More

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, 1. Baron Lytton (* 25. Mai 1803 in London; † 18. Januar 1873 in Torquay) war ein englischer Romanautor und Politiker des 19. Jahrhunderts. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)... More

Die letzten Tage von Pompeji (engl. The Last Days of Pompeii) ist ein Roman von Edward Bulwer-Lytton aus dem Jahre 1834. Erzählt wird die Geschichte des jungen, reichen Griechen Glaukus und seiner Geliebten Ione, die um 79 n. Chr. in Pompeji leben. Glaukus, der das Leben eines verwöhnten Adligen füh... More

Frightful fiction by masters from Lovecraft to Stoker to Crowley to Poe.   Packed with stories selected and introduced by one of todays leading esoteric scholars, this book will do more than make your toes curl and your skin crawl. These tales reveal hidden truths and forbidden pursuits, and divulge... More