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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. It culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
A sword and sandal adventure film based on the novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Steve Reeves plays a centurion who returns to Pompeii to find his father murdered and uncovers a conspiracy involving Christians and the ruling class.
- (1.3K)
- Action, Adventure, History
- Mario Bonnard
- 1960-07-17
The 1959 film The Last Days of Pompeii was the eighth cinematic version of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name. First published in 1834, the novel became a bestseller, helped on its release by the eruption of Vesuvius just before publication.
A novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton about the final days of the ancient city of Pompeii before its destruction by Mount Vesuvius. The story follows the adventures of Glaucus, a Roman, and his love interests, Ione and Julia, as well as the evil priest of Isis, Arbaces.
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.
- (2.4K)
- 1834
- Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
- Paperback
The different aspects of life in Pompeii, a coastal luxury resort near Naples catering for the very rich of imperial Rome, mainly before but culminating in the eruption of the Vesuvian volcano, which wipes it from the face of the Earth.
Feb 19, 2006 · A historical fiction novel by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, set in the ancient city of Pompeii before and during its destruction by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Download or read online for free in various formats.
