After a prolific life as an author with a European reputation, outselling Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton was ennobled and, on his death, buried in Westminster Abbey. Since the First World War, however, his literary reputation has sunk and he is now little read. Bulwer Lytton is the first modern biography of an extraordinary man whose literary output was prodigious. It ranged from novels, such as The Last Days of Pompeii, and poetry to plays, biographies and extensive political commentaries and journalism. A dandy to rival Disraeli, he lived life in London, at Knebworth, his country house, or more frequently abroad, with hectic intensity. Arousing strong emotions in public, his private life was turbulent in the extreme; his acrimonious and bitter divorce from his wife Rosina providing one of the most public and prolonged marital disputes of the period. Despite this, he became Secretary for the Colonies in 1858 and was responsible for the setting up of Queensland. Leslie Mitchell's biography, written to mark the two hundredth anniversary of Bulwer Lytton's birth, is an account of an eminent and very remarkable Victorian.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton was an immensely popular Victorian novelist, whose bestselling novels earned him a considerable fortune. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete fictional works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Bulwer-Lytton’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 29 novels, with individual contents tables * The rare unfinished novel LIONEL HASTINGS is available in no other digital collection * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the Victorian texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry and the short stories * Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read * Includes Bulwer-Lytton’s complete short stories, with all the obscure tales published in magazines – appearing here for the first time in digital print * Features Thompson Cooper’s important biography on the author, first time in digital print - discover Bulwer-Lytton’s literary life * A selection of non-fiction works * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels FALKLAND PELHAM THE DISOWNED DEVEREUX PAUL CLIFFORD EUGENE ARAM GODOLPHIN THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII THE PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE RIENZI, THE LAST OF THE ROMAN TRIBUNES ERNEST MALTRAVERS ALICE LEILA CALDERON, THE COURTIER ZICCI NIGHT AND MORNING ZANONI THE LAST OF THE BARONS LUCRETIA HAROLD, THE LAST OF THE SAXONS THE CAXTONS MY NOVEL WHAT WILL HE DO WITH IT? A STRANGE STORY THE COMING RACE KENELM CHILLINGLY THE PARISIENS PAUSANIAS LIONEL HASTINGS The Shorter Fiction CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNIGHT’S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE THE STUDENT TALES FROM MISCELLANEOUS PERIODICALS The Short Stories LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Play THE LADY OF LYONS The Poetry LIST OF POEMS LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Non-Fiction ATHENS: ITS RISE AND FALL THE FALLEN STAR A DISSERTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF EVIL TOMLINSONIANA The Biography LORD LYTTON: A BIOGRAPHY by Thompson Cooper Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles