Lytton: 593 books

Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a well known English novelist in the 19th century, and he's been immortalized for coining famous phrases like  "pursuit of the almighty dollar" and "the pen is mightier than the sword". In addition to being a politician, he wrote across all genres, from horror stories to historical fiction and action titles.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a well known English novelist in the 19th century, and he's been immortalized for coining famous phrases like  "pursuit of the almighty dollar" and "the pen is mightier than the sword". In addition to being a politician, he wrote across all genres, from horror stories to historical fiction and action titles.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a well known English novelist in the 19th century, and he's been immortalized for coining famous phrases like  "pursuit of the almighty dollar" and "the pen is mightier than the sword". In addition to being a politician, he wrote across all genres, from horror stories to historical fiction and action titles.

1834 veröffentlicht Edward Bulwer-Lytton sein bekannteste Werk: Das Opus über den Untergang Pompejis Erzählt wird die Geschichte des jungen, reichen Griechen Glaukus und seiner Geliebten Ione, die um 79 n. Chr. in Pompeji leben. Glaukus führt das Leben eines verwöhnten Adligen, bis er Ione begegnet....

Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a well known English novelist in the 19th century, and he's been immortalized for coining famous phrases like  "pursuit of the almighty dollar" and "the pen is mightier than the sword". In addition to being a politician, he wrote across all genres, from horror stories to historical fiction and action titles.

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 Whereas, after Florence Lascelles’s death, Ernest has withdrawn from the world,...

Excerpt: “The rich moonlight that now shone through the windows streamed on little that it could invest with poetical attraction.The room was small, though not squalid in its character and appliances.The bed-curtains, of a dull chintz, were drawn back, and showed the form of a man, past middle age,...

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...

A rationalist Victorian visits a haunted house in order to explain the nature of its ghostly inhabitants. (Goodreads)

Il primo dovere di un biografo, sostiene Lytton Strachey, è senza dubbio conquistare e mantenere la giusta misura, sbarazzandosi del superfluo e dell’insignificante, per focalizzare solo quel che è degno di nota. Del resto, una narrazione meticolosa non necessariamente restituisce il senso delle...

Lytton Strachey fu un profondo conoscitore dell’opera e del pensiero di François-Marie Arouet, meglio noto come Voltaire, di cui lo affascinava la capacità di evadere dal «labirinto dei fatti pratici», per giungere a una comprensione filosofica dei fondamenti politici e religiosi del mondo....

Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Die letzten Tage von Pompeji The Last Days of Pompeii, Erstdruck 1834. Hier in einer Übersetzung von Wilhelm Cremer, erschienen bei Neufeld und Henius Berlin, 1924. Vollständige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage...

"Paul Clifford" ist ein Roman von Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 7 Bänden. Die Geschichte erzählt vom Leben und Handeln des Titelhelden, der ein Doppelleben als Krimineller sowie als angesehener Gentleman der englischen Gesellschaft führt. Diese Ausgabe beinhaltet mit alle 7 Bände.

Die letzten Tage von Pompeji 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 führt und seine Tage in der Gesellschaft...