Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Books In Order

Novels

  1. Pelham (1827)
  2. The Disowned (1828)
  3. Devereux (1829)
  4. Eugene Aram (1832)
  5. Asmodeus at Large (1833)
  6. Godolphin (1834)
  7. The Last Days of Pompeii (1834)
  8. Rienzi (1835)
  9. Zanoni (1842)
  10. The Caxtons (1850)
  11. My Novel (1853)
  12. The Haunted and the Haunters (1857)
  13. A Strange Story (1861)
  14. The Coming Race (1871)
  15. The Parisians (1872)

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  1. The Pilgrims of the Rhine (1834)

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Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Books Overview

Pelham

Pelham, Bulwer Lytton’s second novel, is the tale of a young dandy named Henry Pelham. Pelham, a keen wit and aspiring politician, falls in love with Ellen Glanville, sister of his lifelong friend, Reginald Glanville, only to discover the friend suddenly accused of murder. Pelham must find the real killer and clear the name of his friend to take the hand of the woman he loves…
Pelham‘s a fine tale, but mostly it’s remarkable as a classic ‘Fashionable Novel’ in its day, the Fashionable Novel was a genre unto itself, focusing on the manners, habits and lifestyles of the Rich and Famous of the first half of the 19th century the jet set of its day. Pelham‘s sparkling cynicism makes fun of the genre as it executes it gorgeously; it also sheds an amazing light on a time and circumnstance well removed from our own.

The Disowned

At the time this work was written I was deeply engaged in the study of metaphysics and ethics and out of that study grew the character of Algernon Mordaunt. He is represented as a type of the Heroism of Christian Philosophy an union of love and knowledge placed in the midst of sorrow, and laboring on through the pilgrimage of life, strong in the fortitude that comes from belief in heaven.

Devereux

MY grandfather, Sir Arthur Devereux peace be with his ashes! was a noble old knight and cavalier, possessed of a property sufficiently large to have maintained in full dignity half a dozen peers, such as peers have been since the days of the first James.

Eugene Aram

Eugene Aram, a brilliant but reclusive scholar, lives in obscurity, devoting his life to arcane research. But he is gradually coaxed from his solitary lifestyle by his kindly old neighbour, Rowland Lester, and as Aram’s visits to Lester become more frequent, he becomes more and more enamoured of beautiful Madeline Lester. And yet, despite the young lovers’ apparent happiness, Aram seems to be hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, Madeline’s cousin Walter sets out to learn the fate of his long lost father. His quest will lead to the discovery of a long hidden and horrible crime and the trial of Eugene Aram for murder! When Eugene Aram appeared in 1832, it drew mixed reactions: critics condemned it vehemently for romanticizing the life of a well known convicted murderer, while the reading public eagerly snatched up copies of the novel. Controversial both for the artistic liberties Bulwer took with the facts of the case and for his ambivalent portrayal of his eponymous anti hero, Eugene Aram remained nonetheless one of the most popular novels of the Victorian period. This new scholarly edition includes the unabridged text of the original three volume edition of 1832, together with an introduction and annotations by Ann Barbara Graff. Also featured are appendices containing contemporary reviews of the novel, a parody by Thackeray, Bulwer’s fragment of a tragedy about Aram, and other contextual documents.

Godolphin

The rich moonlight that now shone through the windows streamed on little that it could invest with poetical attraction. The room was small, though not squalid in its character and appliances. The bed curtains, of a dull chintz, were drawn back, and showed the form of a man, past middle age, propped by pillows, and bearing on his countenance the marks of approaching death.

The Last Days of Pompeii

In 79 A.D., the small city of Pompeii, located south of Mount Vesuvius and the modern city of Naples, was a beautiful resort town located near the Mediterranean Sea. It was here that nineteenth century British novelist Edward Bulwer Lytton set his bestselling novel, which has remained in print ever since. In Pompeii Glaucus the Athenian meets Ione, and quickly falls in love with her and she with him. But the Egyptian magus, Arbaces, last descendant of the ancient royal family of that now Roman province, wants the pretty young girl for himself, and will do anything to attain his goal, including accusing the handsome Greek of a murder that the magician has himself committed. As the great mountain begins to belch its displeasure over the sybarite Roman existence, Glaucus is condemned to death in the gladiator’s ring. Can any of the Pompeiians survive the rain of gas and ash? S. Fowler Wright has adapted one of Bulwer Lytton s best historical novels, cutting some of the extraneous descriptive scenes, and bringing to life the men and women vying for existence amidst the unexpected destruction of their ancient city.

Rienzi

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having had occasion to read the original authorities from which modern historians have drawn their accounts of the life of Rienzi, I was led to believe that a very remarkable man had been superficially judged, and a very important period crudely examined. And this belief was sufficiently strong to induce me at first to meditate a more serious work upon the life and times of Rienzi. I have taken a view of his character different in some respects from that of Gibbon or Sismondi. But it is a view, in all its main features, which I believe and think I could prove myself to be warranted in taking, not less by the facts of History than the laws of Fiction.’ From Bulwer Lytton’s Preface

Zanoni

This 1842 novel by Edward Bulwer Lytton tells a complicated story of love and occult aspiration, interlacing three separate plots. The first chapters give few clues to the fascinating mysteries revealed later in the book, but the wait is worth the effort. The seven parts of the novel give an indication of a sevenfold path of spiritual development lying behind the story itself. The fourth section, ‘The Dweller of the Threshold,’ is a highly significant expression of profound spiritual experience, and this book is one of the finest examples of spiritual fiction. The author himself noted, ‘As a work of imagination, Zanoni ranks, perhaps, amongst the highest of my prose fictions.’ Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6 by 9 inch format by Waking Lion Press.

The Caxtons

So saying, he crept on tiptoe to the bed, and clasping the pale hand held out to him, whispered some words that no doubt charmed and soothed the ear that heard them, for that pale hand was suddenly drawn from his own and thrown tenderly round his neck. The sound of a gentle kiss was heard through the stillness.

My Novel

This work, designed to illustrate the varieties of public and private life, is dedicated by the author, proud to unite a tribute to services recognized by England.

The Haunted and the Haunters

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A Strange Story

Of course, according to the most obvious principles of art, the narrator of a fiction must be as thoroughly in earnest as if he were the narrator of facts. One could not tell the most extravagant fairy tale so as to rouse and sustain the attention of the most infantine listener, if the tale were told as if the taleteller did not believe in it. But when the reader lays down this ‘Strange Story,’ perhaps he will detect, through all the haze of romance, the outlines of these images suggested to his reason: Firstly, the image of sensuous, soulless Nature, such as the Materialist had conceived it; secondly, the image of Intellect, obstinately separating all its inquiries from the belief in the spiritual essence and destiny of man, and incurring all kinds of perplexity and resorting to all kinds of visionary speculation before it settles at last into the simple faith which unites the philosopher and the infant; and thirdly, the image of the erring but pure thoughted visionary, seeking overmuch on this earth to separate soul from mind, till innocence itself is led astray by a phantom, and reason is lost in the space between earth and the stars. Whether in these pictures there be any truth worth the implying, every reader must judge for himself; and if he doubt or deny that there be any such truth, still, in the process of thought which the doubt or denial enforces, he may chance on a truth which it pleases himself to discover. Edward George Bulwer Lytton

The Coming Race

As I drew near and nearer to the light, the chasm became wider, and at last I saw, to my unspeakable amaze, a broad level road at the bottom of the abyss, illumined as far as the eye could reach by what seemed artificial gas lamps placed at regular intervals, as in the thoroughfare of a great city; and I heard confusedly at a distance a hum as of human voices…
.’ Edward Bulwer Lytton’s The Coming Race was one of the most remarkable and most influential books published in the 1870s. The protagonist, a wealthy American wanderer, accompanies an engineer into the recesses of a mine, and discovers the vast caverns of a well lit, civilized land in which dwell the Vril ya. Placid vegetarians and mystics, the Vril ya are privy to the powerful force of Vril a mysterious source of energy that may be used to illuminate, or to destroy. The Vril ya have built a world without fame and without envy, without poverty and without many of the other extremes that characterize human society. The women are taller and grander than the men, and control everything related to the reproduction of the race. There is little need to work and much of what does need to be done is for a novel reason consigned to children. As the Vril ya have evolved a society of calm and of contentment, so they have evolved physically. But as it turns out, they are destined one day to emerge from the earth and to destroy human civilization. Bulwer Lytton’s novel is fascinating for the ideas it expresses about evolution, about gender, and about the ambitions of human society. But it is also an extraordinarily entertaining science fiction novel. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, one of the great figures of late Victorian literature, may have been overvalued in his time but his extraordinarily engaging and readable work is certainly greatly undervalued today. As Brian Aldiss notes in his introduction to this new edition, this utopian science fiction novel first published in 1871 still retains tremendous interest.

The Pilgrims of the Rhine

To Henry Lytton Bulwer: ALLOW me, my dear Brother, to dedicate this Work to you. The greater part of it namely, the tales which vary and relieve the voyages of Gertrude and Trevylyan was written in the pleasant excursion we made together some years ago. Among the associations some sad and some pleasing connected with the general design, none are so agreeable to me as those that remind me of the friendship subsisting between us, and which, unlike that of near relations in general, has grown stronger and more intimate as our footsteps have receded farther from the fields where we played together in our childhood. I dedicate this Work to you with the more pleasure, not only when I remember that it has always been a favorite with yourself, but when I think that it is one of my writings most liked in foreign countries; and I may possibly, therefore, have found a record destined to endure the affectionate esteem which this Dedication is intended to convey. EDWARD GEORGE BULWER LYTTON

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