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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859, choosing Richard Clement Moody as founder ...
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
The status of the sentence as an archetype for bad writing...
- Paul Clifford
Paul Clifford is a novel published in 1830 by English author...
- Vril
Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, originally published as...
- Pelham (novel)
Pelham is an 1828 novel by the British writer Edward...
- Zanoni
Zanoni is an 1842 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a story of...
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, originally published as The Coming Race, is a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871.. Some readers have believed the account of a superior subterranean master race and the energy-form called "Vril", at least in part; some theosophists, notably Helena Blavatsky, William Scott-Elliot, and Rudolf Steiner, accepted the book as based on ...
- Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
- 1871
Pelham is an 1828 novel by the British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, originally published in three volumes. It was his breakthrough novel, launching him as one of Britain's leading authors. It is part of the tradition of silver fork novels that enjoyed great popularity in the late Regency and early Victorian eras.
Zanoni is an 1842 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a story of love and occult aspiration. By way of introduction, the author confesses: "... It so chanced that some years ago, in my younger days, whether of authorship or life, I felt the desire to make myself acquainted with the true origins and tenets of the singular sect known by the name of Rosicrucians."
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- 1842
Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (born May 25, 1803, London, England—died January 18, 1873, Torquay, Devonshire) was a British politician, poet, and critic, chiefly remembered, however, as a prolific novelist. His books, though dated, remain immensely readable, and his experiences lend his work an unusual historical interest.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The pen is mightier than the sword. An illustration of Cardinal Richelieu holding a sword, by H. A. Ogden, 1892, from The Works of Edward Bulwer Lytton. " The pen is mightier than the sword " is an expression indicating that the written word is more effective than violence as a means of social or political change.
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859, choosing Richard Clement Moody as founder of British Columbia. A noted philhellene, Bulwer-Lytton was offered the Crown of ...
