Edward Bulwer Lytton: 542 books

SIR,--It has long been my ambition to add some humble tribute to the offerings laid upon the shrine of your genius. At each succeeding book that I have given to the world, I have paused to consider if it were worthy to be inscribed with your great name, and at each I have played the procrastinator,...

Excerpt: "In the year 18— I settled as a physician at one of the wealthiest of our great English towns, which I will designate by the initial L——. I was yet young, but I had acquired some reputation by a professional work, which is, I believe, still amongst the received authorities on the subject...

Cette « race » habite les entrailles de la terre, elle a ses lois, ses coutumes, ses machines — une civilisation que les hommes qui vivent sous le soleil ne pourraient ni connaître ni comprendre. C'est une race totalement étrangère, totalement étrange. Une jour, elle quittera les ténèbres...

Paul Clifford, opera in tre volumi, mai tradotta in Italia, è la storia travagliata di un giovane che si dibatte nelle difficoltà della vita dell’epoca, cercando di sfuggire dal corso che il destino gli ha assegnato. Attraverso continui colpi di scena, il lettore rimane incollato alle pagine,...

Continuano le storie travagliate del giovane ladro gentiluomo Paul Clifford che si dibatte nelle difficoltà della vita del primo ottocento inglese, cercando di sfuggire dal corso che il destino gli ha assegnato. In questo secondo volume il protagonista rimane travolto dalla passione d’amore che...

Zanoni décrit la vie de deux êtres humains devenus immortels. L’un, Mejnour, est sans passion, tandis que Zanoni, son disciple, a atteint un équilibre entre raison et passion. Zanoni possède la jeunesse éternelle, le pouvoir et la connaissance absolue. Sa rencontre avec Viola Pisani bouleversera...

Excerpt: "Ou peut-on etre mieux qu’au sein de sa famille?—French Song. [Where can one be better than in the bosom of one’s family?] I am an only child. My father was the younger son of one of our oldest earls; my mother the dowerless daughter of a Scotch peer. Mr. Pelham was a moderate whig,...

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...

Excerpt: "It was the summer of the year 1491, and the armies of Ferdinand and Isabel invested the city of Granada. The night was not far advanced; and the moon, which broke through the transparent air of Andalusia, shone calmly over the immense and murmuring encampment of the Spanish foe, and touched...