Edward Bulwer Lytton

Kenelm ChillinglyMy Very Dear Father, -- Obedient to your desire, I depart in search of real life and real persons, or of the best imitations of them. Forgive me, I beseech you, if I commence that search in my own way. I have seen enough of ladies and gentlemen for the present: they must be all very much alike in every part of the world. You desired me to be amused. I go to try if that be possible. Ladies and gentlemen are not amusing; the more ladylike or gentlemanlike they are, the more insipid I find them. My dear father, I go in quest of adventure like Amadis of Gaul, like Don Quixote, like Gil Blas, like Roderick Random; like, in short, the only people seeking real life, the people who never existed except in books. I go on foot; I go alone. I have provided myself with a larger amount of money than I ought to spend, because every man must buy experience, and the first fees are heavy. In fact, I have put fifty pounds into my pocketbook and into my purse five sovereigns and seventeen shillings. This sum ought to last me a year; but I dare say inexperience will do me out of it in a month, so we will count it as nothing. Since you have asked me to fix my own allowance, I will beg you kindly to commence it this day in advance. . . . Yours ever affectionately, Kenelm .......... Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 1803 - 18 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig MP from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative MP from 1851 to 1866. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859, when he selected Richard Clement Moody to be founder of British Columbia. He was offered the Crown of Greece in 1862 after the abdication of King Otto, but declined it. He became Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866. His son was the statesman Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, who served as Governor-General of India and British Ambassador to France, and wrote poetry under the pseudonym Owen Meredith. Bulwer-Lytton's literary works were highly popular; his novels earned him a fortune. He coined the phrases "the great unwashed," "pursuit of the almighty dollar," "the pen is mightier than the sword," and "dweller on the threshold." Then came a sharp decline in his reputation, so that he is known today for little more than the opening line "It was a dark and stormy night," the first seven words of his novel Paul Clifford (1830). The sardonic Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest attempts to find the "opening sentence of the worst of all possible novels." LifeBulwer-Lytton was born on 25 May 1803 to General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth House, Hertfordshire. He had two older brothers, William Earle Lytton Bulwer (1799-1877) and Henry (1801-1872), later Lord Dalling and Bulwer. When Edward was four, his father died and his mother moved to London. He was a delicate, neurotic child and was discontented at a number of boarding schools. But he was precocious and Mr. Wallington at Baling encouraged him to publish, at the age of fifteen, an immature work, Ishmael and Other Poems. In 1822 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he met John Auldjo, but shortly afterwards moved to Trinity Hall. In 1825 he won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for English verse. In the following year he took his BA degree and printed, for private circulation, a small volume of poems, Weeds and Wild Flowers. He purchased a commission in the army in 1826, but sold it in 1829 without serving. In August 1827, he married Rosina Doyle Wheeler (1802-1882), a famous Irish beauty, but against his mother's wishes, who withdrew his allowance, so that he was forced to work for a living...

The ring of Amasis - From the papers of a German physician is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1863. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

O classer ce vrai roman de science-fiction, tonnant voyage au centre de la terre crit en 1870 (soit six ans apr s celui de Jules Verne): utopie imiter ou effroyable dystopie destin e avertir ses lecteurs ? Le narrateur est un explorateur qui a lu tout Tocqueville. En bon Am ricain, il ne rate jamais une occasion de vanter les m rites du syst me d mocratique de sa tendre nation. Alors, le jour o il d couvre une race matriarcale autocratique, r fugi e sous terre depuis les temps pr historiques, toutes ses belles certitudes vacillent. Les ''Gy-ei'' (les femmes) sont sup rieures aux ''Ana'' (hommes au stade r gressif), m me en force physique: elles atteignent une stature plus lev e et leurs formes plus arrondies renferment des muscles et des nerfs plus fermes que ceux des hommes, un fait important qui favorise le maintien des droits de la femme. Par-dessus tout, les Gy-ei ont domestiqu le fluide corporel qu'on appelle le ''Vril'', lequel contient un l ment de destruction si puissant ( l'image du cri des Fremen dans Dune de Franck Herbert) qu'il leur permet de voler dans les airs, de tuer distance ou d'an antir Londres ou New York On mesure vite que la force du Vril repr sente une terrible menace pour les hommes d'au-dessus, surtout si les femelles d'en-dessous d cident un jour de remonter la surface de la Terre... En dition bilingue audio ANGLAIS-FRAN AIS, avec lecture audio int gr e: lisez La Race venir en fran ais et en anglais puis, l'aide de votre smartphone, scannez le Code barre au d but de chaque chapitre, afin d' couter la lecture de ce roman dans sa version originale britannique. L'id al pour am liorer votre ma trise de la langue d'Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Zanoni, das Geheimnis der Unsterblichkeit, ein Bildungsroman, der vor der Kulisse des 18. Jahrhunderts spielt, ist einer der ber hmtesten Texte der esoterischen Literatur. Zanoni ist ein unsterbliches Wesen, am Leben seit der Zeit der chald ischen Zivilisation. Um seine Unsterblichkeit und seine Kr fte als Wahrsager zu bewahren, darf er keine Sterbliche lieben. Aber als er Viola trifft, eine junge Operns ngerin aus Neapel mit vielversprechender Zukunft und Tochter des verkannten italienischen Violinisten Pisani, ist es um ihn geschehen. Mejnour, Zanonis Meister, warnt ihn vor den Gefahren, sein Herz an eine Sterbliche zu vergeben. Aber das Herz hat seine Gr nde, die der Verstand nicht kennt. Die Liebe zwischen dem Paar w chst, aber w hrend Zanoni immer menschlicher wird, beginnt seine Unsterblichkeit zu weichen... Eine zeitlose Liebesgeschichte.

Zanoni, das Geheimnis der Unsterblichkeit, ein Bildungsroman, der vor der Kulisse des 18. Jahrhunderts spielt, ist einer der ber hmtesten Texte der esoterischen Literatur. Zanoni ist ein unsterbliches Wesen, am Leben seit der Zeit der chald ischen Zivilisation. Um seine Unsterblichkeit und seine Kr fte als Wahrsager zu bewahren, darf er keine Sterbliche lieben. Aber als er Viola trifft, eine junge Operns ngerin aus Neapel mit vielversprechender Zukunft und Tochter des verkannten italienischen Violinisten Pisani, ist es um ihn geschehen. Mejnour, Zanonis Meister, warnt ihn vor den Gefahren, sein Herz an eine Sterbliche zu vergeben. Aber das Herz hat seine Gr nde, die der Verstand nicht kennt. Die Liebe zwischen dem Paar w chst, aber w hrend Zanoni immer menschlicher wird, beginnt seine Unsterblichkeit zu weichen... Eine zeitlose Liebesgeschichte.

La larga sombra del vampiro ha oscurecido a los dem s inmortales g ticos, como Fausto, el Jud o Errante, o Zanoni, el cual pertenece a una sociedad secreta -m s antigua que los Rosacruces-que utilizaba el poder de la vida eterna para buenos prop sitos. El personaje central de la narraci n es un ser misterioso, de origen desconocido, de quien se cuentan cosas extraordinarias, que vive consagrado a sus estudios herm ticos hasta que se enamora de la bella Viola Pisani, dolo de la pera de N poles. Desde ese momento, los amantes estar n sometidos a toda suerte de vicisitudes; un drama m gico que concluye durante los d as del Terror, bajo el imperio de Robespierre y la sombra ominosa de la guillotina.