Bulwer Lytton Edward: 542 books

Continuano le storie travagliate del giovane ladro gentiluomo Paul Clifford che si dibatte nelle difficoltà della vita del primo ottocento inglese, cercando di sfuggire dal corso che il destino gli ha assegnato. In questo secondo volume il protagonista rimane travolto dalla passione d’amore che...

Zanoni décrit la vie de deux êtres humains devenus immortels. L’un, Mejnour, est sans passion, tandis que Zanoni, son disciple, a atteint un équilibre entre raison et passion. Zanoni possède la jeunesse éternelle, le pouvoir et la connaissance absolue. Sa rencontre avec Viola Pisani bouleversera...

Excerpt: "Ou peut-on etre mieux qu’au sein de sa famille?—French Song. [Where can one be better than in the bosom of one’s family?] I am an only child. My father was the younger son of one of our oldest earls; my mother the dowerless daughter of a Scotch peer. Mr. Pelham was a moderate whig,...

Excerpt: "In the gardens at Naples, one summer evening in the last century, some four or five gentlemen were seated under a tree drinking their sherbet and listening, in the intervals of conversation, to the music which enlivened that gay and favorite resort of an indolent population. One of this...

Excerpt: "It was the summer of the year 1491, and the armies of Ferdinand and Isabel invested the city of Granada. The night was not far advanced; and the moon, which broke through the transparent air of Andalusia, shone calmly over the immense and murmuring encampment of the Spanish foe, and touched...

79 après Jésus-Christ. Pompéi est une cité florissante, cosmopolite, animée. Ses habitants profitent de la vie, des festins, des plaisirs amoureux, du jeu... Un jeune et riche Athénien, Glaucus, aime Ione, la pupille d'Arbacès, prêtre égyptien perfide et corrompu. Arbacès s'oppose à leur...

Ein gewaltiger Ausbruch des Vesuvs beendet alles Lieben und Leiden der Menschen in Pompeji: ... In den Pausen zwischen den Asche- und Regengüssen hörte man ein unterirdisches Getöse in der Erde und die wild brausenden Wogen des aufgeregten Meeres. An einigen Stellen lag die Asche schon knietief, und...

C’était au commencement du mois d’avril ; le jour touchait à sa fin ; deux dames étaient assises à la fenêtre ouverte d’un cottage du Devonshire. La pelouse qui s’étendait devant elles était parsemée d’arbres verts, dont le sombre feuillage était égayé par les premières fleurs...

Excerpt: "In one of those green woods which belong so peculiarly to our island (for the Continent has its forests, but England its woods) there lived, a short time ago, a charming little fairy called Nymphalin. I believe she is descended from a younger branch of the house of Mab; but perhaps that...

Excerpt: "The celebrated name which forms the title to this work will sufficiently apprise the reader that it is in the earlier half of the fourteenth century that my story opens. It was on a summer evening that two youths might be seen walking beside the banks of the Tiber, not far from that part...