Bulwer Lytton: 547 books

Un romanzo o un trattato politico? Certamente una piacevole dissertazione sui temi della convivenza civile, se non uno studio impegnato sui difetti di una democrazia immatura e puramente formale (quella americana), troppo “giovane” per l’esperienza di un Pari d’Inghilterra colto e smaliziato....

IT was towards the evening of a day in early April that two ladies were seated by the open windows of a cottage in Devonshire. The lawn before them was gay with evergreens, relieved by the first few flowers and fresh turf of the reviving spring; and at a distance, through an opening amongst the trees,...

In the year 18- I settled as a physician at one of the wealthiest of our great English towns, which I will designate by the initial L-. I was yet young, but I had acquired some reputation by a professional work, which is, I believe, still amongst the received authorities on the subject of which it...

SIR,--It has long been my ambition to add some humble tribute to the offerings laid upon the shrine of your genius. At each succeeding book that I have given to the world, I have paused to consider if it were worthy to be inscribed with your great name, and at each I have played the procrastinator,...

Excerpt: "In the year 18— I settled as a physician at one of the wealthiest of our great English towns, which I will designate by the initial L——. I was yet young, but I had acquired some reputation by a professional work, which is, I believe, still amongst the received authorities on the subject...

Cette « race » habite les entrailles de la terre, elle a ses lois, ses coutumes, ses machines — une civilisation que les hommes qui vivent sous le soleil ne pourraient ni connaître ni comprendre. C'est une race totalement étrangère, totalement étrange. Une jour, elle quittera les ténèbres...