This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
A Christmas Dinner With the Man in the Moon (1880), illustrated Flights to and from Mars Doctor Omega (1906), ... illustrated To Mars via the Moon (1911), Mark Wicks, illustrated A Plunge Into Space (1890), Robert Cromie A Trip to Mars ...
Retells, in graphic novel format, the tale of 79 A.D. Pompeii, where Athenian nobleman Glaucus, who loves the fair Ione, faces a rival, Egyptian sorcerer Arbaces, as Mount Vesuvius rumbles nearby.
The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan.
The Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, highly popular writer of his day.
Among its readers have been those who have believed that its account of a superior subterranean master race and the energy-form called "Vril" is accurate, to the extent that some theosophists, notably Helena Blavatsky, William Scott-Elliot, ...
These beings, known as Vril-ya, live underground, but are planning soon to claim the surface of the earth as their own -- destroying humankind in the process.
The novel was extremely popular in its time and is now considered seminal science fiction text by contemporary scholars.
The book tells the story of a young American adventurer who discovers a portal to an underground world at the bottom of a mine shaft. In this world lives a highly advanced race, with a dark secret.
The novel was extremely popular in its time and is now considered seminal science fiction text by contemporary scholars.
This is his position among the Vril-ya, against whose power he is helpless.The narrator relates to such aspects of Vril-ya culture as the use of Vril, the "fluid" that allows the Vril-you fly, to control automata that perform manual labor, ...
It is a fantastic epic romance. Lytton has presented a wicked and malicious persona that fulfills all demonic characteristics. This masterpiece is referred as a ghost story as it is written in gothic style.
We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public.
A further outline of this story would give no idea of its charm. The mutual affection of the Caxtons is finely indicated, and the gradations of light and shade make a beautiful picture.
We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public.
We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public.
"Zicci" from Edward Bulwer-Lytton. English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician (1803-1873).