Edward Bulwer: 543 books

Published in 1838, “Alice, or The Mysteries” picks up the story of the disenchanted poet-gone-politician-gone-recluse Ernest Maltravers, his early love Alice Darvil and his underhanded antagonist Lumley Ferrers. Whereas, after Florence Lascelles’s death, Ernest has withdrawn from the world,...

Excerpt: “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,...

From Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth to Rudy Rucker's The Hollow Earth, subterranean worlds have been a source of both fascination and fear for the literary imagination, and The Coming Race is no exception. An evolutionary fantasy first published in 1871, the story draws upon ideas...

A rationalist Victorian visits a haunted house in order to explain the nature of its ghostly inhabitants. (Goodreads)

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...