Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Bulwer-Lytton was an immensely versatile and popular Victorian novelist who wrote in virtually every mode from silver-fork fiction to historical novels to Gothic thrillers. His influence on Dickens and Victorian fiction generally was considerable.
Works
- The Last Days of PompeiiHistorical romance set amid the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and fall of Pompeii
- PelhamNovel of a fashionable dandy navigating vice, intrigue, and moral redemption in Regency London
- Paul CliffordNovel of a highwayman protagonist whose criminal past entangles him with law and love
- Eugene AramNovel of a schizophrenic criminal's psyche and his entanglement with murder and law
- RienziHistorical novel of Cola di Rienzi's political rebellion in medieval Rome