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The Last Days of Pompeii was a 19th century bestselling historical novel recommended to us by Cambridge classics professor and TV personality Mary Beard. “What you get is a fantastic reconstruction of the ancient world,” she says in her interview on books about ancient history in modern life .
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In 1834 Bulwer-Lytton published The Last Days of Pompeii, a potboiler about the days leading up the August 14, 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius. He has a network of characters, heroes and villains, that get into tight spots, but all goes poof when the mountain erupts and the town is buried in ash.
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- 1834
- Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
- Paperback
The Last Days of Pompeii. NEW. Chariots race, people (Ubaldo Stefani, Negri Pouget, Tettoni Fiorio) play, and lions pack the arena until Mount Vesuvius erupts in A.D. 79. Prime Video.
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- Ubaldo Stefani, Negri Pouget, Tettoni Fiorio
- Mario Caserini
- History, Drama
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A fairly decent piece of fiction. Full Review | Nov 19, 2020. Meyer Levin (Patterson Murphy) Esquire Magazine. Basil Rathbone's incisive, worldly portrayal of Pontius Pilate is the most notable...
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The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan. [1] It culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
