The Last Days of Pompeii: Pompeii, AD 79
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 25 full-page plates by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, John Martin and Jean-Léon Gérôme. Pompeii in the last week of August, AD 79: a Greek, an Egyptian priest of Isis, a blind flower-seller who alone knows the streets in the dark. Bulwer-Lytton wrote it after seeing Bryullov's enormous canvas in Milan, and the excavations gave him his set — the amphitheatre, the House of the Tragic Poet, the sentry at his post. It made Pompeii a Victorian obsession. Twenty-five plates of Roman ruins and street scenes, from Panini's capriccios to Linton's views of the Forum, fix the novel's vanished city in paint.
Complete and unabridged, with 25 full-page plates by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, John Martin and Jean-Léon Gérôme. Pompeii in the last week of August, AD 79: a Greek, an Egyptian priest of Isis, a blind flower-seller who alone knows the streets in the dark. Bulwer-Lytton wrote it after seeing Bryullov'...
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) was an English novelist and politician. He served in Parliament and was Secretary of State for the Colonies. His novels include The Last Days of Pompeii, Rienzi, Zanoni, Paul Clifford, and The Coming Race.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) was an English novelist and politician. He served in Parliament and was Secretary of State for the Colonies. His novels include The Last Days of Pompeii, Rienzi, Zanoni, Paul Clifford, and The Coming Race.
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