He became Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866. His son was the statesman Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, who served as Governor-General of India and British Ambassador to France, and wrote poetry under the pseudonym Owen Meredith.
It has also been published as Vril, the Power of the Coming Race.Some readers have believed the account of a superior subterranean master race and the energy-form called "Vril," at least in part; some theosophists, notably Helena Blavatsky, ...
Along with other works of Edward Bulwer Lytton, such as Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, Zanoni's deep archetypal and symbolic story has such a ring of Truth, that it influenced the New Thought and Theosophy movements of it's time, and ...
The novel was extremely popular in its time and is now considered seminal science fiction text by contemporary scholars.
"Excuse me; I have no desire to be ridiculed as a superstitious dreamer,--nor, on the other hand, could I ask you to accept on my affirmation what you would hold to be incredible without the evidence of your own senses.
Along with other works of Edward Bulwer Lytton, such as Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, Zanoni's deep archetypal and symbolic story has such a ring of Truth, that it influenced the New Thought and Theosophy movements of it's time, and ...