A Dark and Stormy Oeuvre: Crime, Magic and Power in the Novels of Edward Bulwer-Lytton

by David Huckvale (Author)

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  Paperback
  2016

  $35.56

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a prolific and influential novelist, inspiring Edgar Allan Poe, H. Rider Haggard and Madame Blavatsky, among others. This book covers Bulwer-Lytton's novels in detail, exploring their influence on writers and film makers and, via Richard Wagner's operatic adaptation of Rienzi, the catastrophe of Adolf Hitler.