The Complete Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Victorian Historical Romances, Occult Tales, Political Fictions, Drama, Poetry, and Philosophical EssaysBy Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Length556h 12m
About this audiobook
The Complete Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton presents the remarkable range of a major Victorian man of letters: historical romances such as The Last Days of Pompeii and Rienzi, sensation narratives including Eugene Aram and A Strange Story, philosophical romances such as Zanoni, domestic and social fiction like The Caxtons and My Novel, alongside poetry, drama, essays, and political writing. Across these forms, Bulwer-Lytton combines ornate, rhetorically ambitious prose with vivid atmosphere, melodramatic plotting, historical reconstruction, and sustained inquiry into ambition, social change, occult knowledge, and moral responsibility. The collection situates his work within the tensions of Romantic inheritance, Victorian popular fiction, and the nineteenth-century novel's expanding intellectual and commercial scope. Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) was not merely a prolific novelist but also a poet, playwright, parliamentarian, and influential cultural critic. His aristocratic education, political career, engagement with contemporary reform debates, and fascination with history, esotericism, and the theatre shaped a body of work unusually attentive to both public institutions and private motives. His popularity, international reach, and formal experimentation help explain why his writings were central to Victorian literary culture, even as later criticism often reduced him to caricature. This volume is recommended to readers seeking a fuller and more historically grounded understanding of Victorian literature. It rewards sustained reading by revealing the complexity behind Bulwer-Lytton's famous style and demonstrating how genre fiction can serve as a vehicle for political reflection, philosophical speculation, and cultural memory.
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GenreLiterary Classics, Historical Fiction
Length556 hrs 12 mins
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Publish dateMay 7, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Sci-Fi Boxed Set: 10 Dystopian Novels & SF Classics (Annotated)
26CHAPTER III
2NOVELS & NOVELLAS
27CHAPTER IV
3THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII
28CHAPTER V
4BOOK THE FIRST
29CHAPTER VI
5CHAPTER I.
30CHAPTER VII
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6CHAPTER II
31CHAPTER VIII
7CHAPTER III
32CHAPTER IX
8CHAPTER IV
33CHAPTER X
9CHAPTER V
34CHAPTER XI
10CHAPTER VI
35BOOK THE FOURTH
11CHAPTER VII
36CHAPTER I
12CHAPTER VIII
37CHAPTER II
13BOOK THE SECOND
38CHAPTER III
14CHAPTER I
39CHAPTER IV
15CHAPTER II
40CHAPTER V
16CHAPTER III
41CHAPTER VI
17CHAPTER IV
42CHAPTER VII
18CHAPTER V
43CHAPTER VIII
19CHAPTER VI
44CHAPTER IX
20CHAPTER VII
45CHAPTER X
21CHAPTER VIII
46CHAPTER XI
22CHAPTER IX
47CHAPTER XII
23BOOK THE THIRD
48CHAPTER XIII
24CHAPTER I
49CHAPTER XIV
25CHAPTER II
50CHAPTER XV
Gesammelte Romane und Erzählungen: Die letzten Tage von Pompeji + Das Geschlecht der Zukunft + Das Haus des schwarzen Magiers + Die Pilger des Rheins + Paul Clifford und mehr (Kommentiert)Edward Bulwer-Lytton133h 42m$1 · $0.00
Das Geschlecht der Zukunft (Kommentiert)Edward Bulwer-Lytton7h 12m$1 · $0.00
Godolphin (Kommentiert)Edward Bulwer-Lytton16h 13m$1 · $0.00
The Greatest Gothich Novels of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Annotated)Edward Bulwer-Lytton53h$2 · $0.00
The Last Days of Pompeii (Annotated)Edward Bulwer-Lytton17h 50m$2 · $0.00
Ausgewählte Romane und Erzählungen von Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Kommentiert)Edward Bulwer-Lytton133h 42m$1 · $0.00
Zanoni (Annotated)Edward Bulwer-Lytton17h 9m$2 · $0.00
Die Pilger des Rheins (Die ideale Welt) (Kommentiert)Edward Bulwer-Lytton11h 56m$1 · $0.00
Eugen Aram: Kriminalroman (Kommentiert)Edward Bulwer-Lytton21h 40m$1 · $0.00
LOST IN ROME (Annotated)Edward Bulwer-Lytton37h 38m$2 · $0.00
Paul Clifford (Annotated)Edward Bulwer-Lytton20h 43m$2 · $0.00
The Coming RaceEdward Bulwer-Lytton6h 34m$2 · $0.00
Rienzi, Last of the Roman TribunesEdward Bulwer-Lytton20h 36m$1 · $0.00
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Die letzten Tage von Pompeji: Historischer RomanEdward Bulwer-Lytton20h 41m$1 · $0.00
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MusashiEiji Yoshikawa53h 20m$30
The Eighth Life (for Brilka)Nino Haratischwili41h 10m$53 · $0.00
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