The Last Days of Pompeii - Brossura

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1481111132 ISBN 13: 9781481111133

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Riassunto

The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron 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. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined several phrases that would become clichés, especially "the great unwashed","the pen is mightier than the sword", as well as the famous opening line "It was a dark and stormy night".

Su questa edizione

• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1481111132
• ISBN 13: 9781481111133
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 576
• Disegnatore: Struik Alex