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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George

Born May 25, 1803, in London; died Jan. 18, 1873, in Torquay. English writer. Born to an aristocratic family. Prominent member of the Liberal Party and later of the Conservative Party.

In Bulwer-Lytton’s early novels there is a noticeable influence not only of romanticism but also of the enlightenment prose of the 18th century—for example, Pelham (1828; Russian translation, 1859), Paul Clifford (1830), and Eugene Aram (1832; Russian translation, 1860). Romantic tendencies were strong in his cycle of historical novels, which includes The Last Days of Pompeii (1834; Russian translation, 1842), Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes (1835; Russian translation, 1860), The Last of the Barons (1843; Russian translation, 1861), and Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings (1848; Russian translation, 1899). In the novels The Caxtons (1849; Russian translation, 1850) and My Novel (1851-52; Russian translation, 1853) Bulwer-Lytton follows the realistic manner of C. Dickens and W. Thackeray. Romantic and realistic characteristics are intermingled in Bulwer-Lytton’s best novel, Kenelm Chillingly (1873; Russian translation, 1873), the hero of which is in sharp conflict with the bourgeois world. Bulwer-Lytton is the author of the novel The Parisians (1873; Russian translation, 1874) and the science-fiction novel The Coming Race (1871; Russian translation, 1873). Among his plays the best known are the historical dramas The Duchess de la V allié re (1836) and Richelieu (1839), as well as the melodramas The Lady of Lyons (1838; Russian translation, 1888) and Money (1840).

WORKS

The Novels and Romances, vols. 1-40. [Boston] 1896-98.
The Poetical and Dramatic Works, vols. 1-5. London, 1852-54.
In Russian translation:
Kenel’m Chillingli. Moscow, 1932.
Pelem, ili Prikliucheniia dzhentl’mena. Moscow, 1958.
P’esy. Moscow, 1960.

REFERENCES

Istoriia angliiskoi literatury, vol. 2, part 2. Moscow, 1955. Page 38.
Lytton, V. A. G. R. Bulwer-Lytton. London, 1948.

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The contest, begun in 1982 at San Jose State University, pays tongue- in-cheek homage to now-obscure 19th-century British novelist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton.

SO BAD IT'S GOOD SPACE OPERA PARODY HAS PLENTY OF POWER by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

It is sponsored by San Jose State University and named for Victorian novelist and Parliament member Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, who penned the infamous opener, ``It was a dark and stormy night.

AREA SCRIBE HAS WAY WITH WORDS : CASTAIC WOMAN SNAGS BAD-WRITING ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

The contest abuses the memory of Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, a prolific 19th-century English novelist whose book ``Paul Clifford'' begins, ``It was a dark and stormy night.

NEWS LITE : ROSIE'S RIVETED TO PARENTHOOD by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

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