Collected Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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However, the term "the Unwashed" with the same meaning, appears in The Parisians: The Oxford English Dictionary refers to "Messrs. Bulwer-Lytton is also credited with an appellation for the Germans: Also the writers of theosophy were influenced by his work. Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest , in which contestants think up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets for it is in London that our scene lies , rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Entrants in the contest seek to capture the rapid changes in point of view, the florid language, and the atmosphere of the full sentence. Several of Bulwer-Lytton's novels were made into operas, one of which, Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen by Richard Wagner , eventually became more famous than the novel.

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Harold, the Last of the Saxons was the source for Verdi's opera Aroldo in In Bulwer-Lytton became the editor of the New Monthly but he resigned the following year. In , he started the Monthly Chronicle , a semi-scientific magazine. Bulwer-Lytton's works of fiction and non-fiction were translated in his day and since then into many languages, including Serbian by Laza Kostic , German, Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Finnish, and Spanish.

In , his Ernest Maltravers was the first complete novel from the West to be translated into Japanese. Lytton Road in Gisborne, New Zealand was named after the novelist.

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Later a state secondary school, Lytton High School , was founded in the road. Bulwer-Lytton was portrayed by the actor Brett Usher in the television serial Disraeli. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. British statesman and author.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer [1]. Falkland [10] Pelham: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 7 December A Cambridge Alumni Database. The Oxford Companion to English Literature sixth edition , pp. The London Publishing Office.

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