Achieve Disowned, Vol. 1 Of 2 (Classic Reprint) Edited By Edward Bulwer-Lytton Ebook
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We read romances, as we go to the theatre, to be amused, as a relief from the carking cares of life and not one reader in five hundred ever vexes his brain with the philosophical problems to which the author sacrifices the continuity Of the story.
The very principle on which the present tale is said to have been constructed that of embodying certain abstract qualities and setting them in motion to work out some moral problem was sure to necessitate its failure.
Nobody with less genius than John Bunyan's ever succeeded in such an enterprise, and
his immortal work was not a novel, but an allegory.
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer Lytton,st Baron Lytton PC, was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician, Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as the great unwashed, pursuit of the almighty dollar, the pen is mightier than the sword, and the infamous incipit It was a dark and stormy night.
He was the youngest son of General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire.
He had two brothers, William Earle Lytton Bulwerand Henry, afterwards Lord Dalling and Bulwer, Lord Lyttons original surname was Bulwer, the names Earle and Lytton were middle names, On Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer Lytton,st Baron Lytton PC, was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician, Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night.
"He was the youngest son of General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire.
He had two brothers, William Earle Lytton Bulwerand Henry, afterwards Lord Dalling and Bulwer, Lord Lytton's original surname was Bulwer, the names 'Earle' and 'Lytton' were middle names, OnFebruaryhe assumed the name and arms of Lytton by royal licence and his surname then became 'Bulwer Lytton', His widowed mother had done the same in, His brothers were always simply surnamed 'Bulwer', sitelink.