Two initiates of an ancient order live outside time in Naples: one has forgotten how to feel, the other falls in love with a singer and must choose between immortality and a human life — as the Terror gathers in Paris. Bulwer-Lytton was the most popular novelist of his day and left the language 'the pen is mightier than the sword'; this occult romance was his own favourite and fed a century of secret societies.
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Alice, or the Mysteries : The Later Life of Ernest Maltravers
Eugene Aram : The Case of a Learned Man at Lynn
Ernest Maltravers : A Young Man's Education in the World
Night and Morning : Two Brothers and a Disputed Marriage
The Last of the Barons : Warwick the King-Maker and His England
Paul Clifford : A Highwayman Before the English Bench
Pelham : A Dandy's Progress Through Society
The Coming Race : A Subterranean People and the Power of Vril
Lucretia : A Poisoner in a Respectable House
The Parisians : Paris on the Eve of the Commune
The Caxtons : A Family Picture