Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton

Részlet a kötetből:Két előkelő ur Pompejiből. - Üdvözöllek, Dyomedes, te is Glaukusnál vacsorázol ma? - kérdezte egy alacsony termetű fiatalember, aki tunikáját az előkelő urak és divatosan öltözködő férfiak szokása szerint, hanyagul és lágyan omló redőkben viselte. -...

English history, a great begetter of románcé, never gave the romancer a finer opening than that seized upon by Lord Lytton in his Harold. He seized on it too with a full perception of the epic events and heroic men associated with it: King Edward the Confessor, Earl Godwin, Tostig, Sweyn, Harold...

EDITOR'S NOTE"The Last Days of Pompeii,'' Lytton's most famous novel has, with three or four others, fully sustained its fame on to our own day. In it his idea of historical romance, that is, romance interwoven in actual history (as stated in his preface to "Harold") is worked out with great...

NIGHT AND MORNING. BOOK I. " Noch in meines Lebens Lenze War ich und ich wandert' aus. Und der Jugend frohe Tänze Liess ich in des Vaters Haus." Schiller : Der Pilgrim. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. " Now rests our vicar. They who knew him best. Proclaim his life to have been entirely rest; Nor one...