Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters
by Leslie Mitchell
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After a prolific life as an author with a European reputation, outselling Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton was ennobled and, on his death, buried in Westminster Abbey. Since the First World War, however, his literary reputation has sunk and he is now little read. Bulwer Lytton is the first modern biography of an extraordinary man whose literary output was prodigious. It ranged from novels, such as The Last Days of Pompeii, and poetry to plays, biographies and extensive political commentaries show more and journalism. A dandy to rival Disraeli, he lived life in London, at Knebworth, his country house, or mo show lessTags
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