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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.
The Last Days of Pompeii ( Italian: Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei) is a 1959 Eastmancolor sword and sandal action film starring Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann, and Fernando Rey and directed by Mario Bonnard and Sergio Leone.
Mount Vesuvius looms ominously over the doomed city of Pompeii, a city in turmoil. Its citizens are being terrorized by a group of black-hooded thieves on the rampage, murdering entire families, and looting their homes. Strangely, they're also leaving a calling card.
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) is an RKO Radio Pictures film starring Preston Foster and directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, [1] creators of the original King Kong. Although inspired by the novel of the same name by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the film has nothing to do with the book.
В романе «Последние дни Помпеи» описываются события, предшествующие извержению Везувия в I в. н. э., похоронившему под пеплом процветающий курортный древнеримский город. Вулканический пепел сохранил в неприкосновенности дома тех, кто жил за две тысячи лет до нас.
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.
Late one afternoon in the ancient city of Pompeii, the fashionable rich young men are congregating for the daily rite of the public baths. Among them are Clodius, a foppish Roman, and Glaucus, a...
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.
Feb 19, 2006 · The Last Days of Pompeii by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… In Historical Fiction. About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
Muscular Glaucus (Steve Reeves) charms women (Christine Kaufmann, Barbara Carroll) and fights sin until Mount Vesuvius erupts in A.D. 79.
