Edward Bulwer-Lytton Books

A historical novel of Pompeii before Vesuvius, mixing romance, religion, politics, and catastrophe.

A Victorian family novel of books, inheritance, domestic affection, learning, ambition, and comic observation.

A classic English-language work about hidden civilizations, energy, science and social progress.

Zanoni explores immortality, occult initiation, love, ambition, and forbidden knowledge.

Rienzi explores medieval Rome, political reform, popular power, and revolution.

Pelham explores fashion, rivalry, manners, reputation, and sophisticated society.

Eugene Aram explores scholarship, hidden crime, remorse, romance, and conscience.