Books with author . Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

Regarded by many as Bulwer-Lytton’s best novel, Vril: The Power of The Coming Race is a powerful novel that fired the imagination of readers starting in the 1870’s. Among the earliest examples of what would become the genre of science fiction, among many authors it influenced H. G. Wells, Samuel Butler, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book tells the story of a young American adventurer who discovers a portal to an underground world at the bottom of a mine shaft. In this world lives a highly advanced race, with a dark secret. This Aelzina Books edition is not a difficult-to read photo-reproduction of an old book. Instead it is a completely new edition, professionally re-typeset from the original 1871 volume in easy-to-read 18 point type using a modern version of the classic Garamond typeface for easy readability. Aelzina Books also includes a short biography of the author as a preface to each book we publish.

City, which, Jmore perhaps than either the delicious breeze or the cloudless sun, the violet valleys and orange-groves of the South, attract the traveller to Naples; on viewing, still fresh and vivid, the houses, the streets, the temples, the theatres of a place existing in the haughtiest age of the Roman empire it was not unnatural, perhaps, that a writer who had before laboured, however unworthily, in the art to revive and create, should feel a keen desire to people once more those deserted streets, to repair those graceful ruins, to reanimate the bones which were yet spared to his survey; to traverse the gulf of eighteen centuries, and to wake to a second existence the City of the Dead! Pompeii !A nd the reader will easily imagine how sensibly this desire grew upon one who felt he could perform his undertaking, with Pompeii itself at the distance of a few miles the sea that once bore her commerce, and received her fugitives, at his feet and the fatal mountain of Vesuvius, still breathing forth smoke and fire, constantly before his eyes !I was aware, however, from the first of the great difficulties with which I had to contend. To paint the manners and exhibit the life of the middle ages, required the hand of a master genius; yet, perhaps, the task is slight and easy in comparison with that which aspires to portray a far earlier and more unfamiliar period. With the men and customs of the feudal time we have a natural sympathy and bond of alliance ;those men were our own ancestors from those customs we received our own the creed of our chivalric fathers is still ours their tombs yet consecrate our churches the ruins of their castles yet frown over our valleys. We trace in their struggles for liberty and for justice our present institutions ;and in the elements of their social state we behold the origin of our own. Yet the task, though arduous, seemed to me (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.