Edward Bulwer Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton ( 1803 - 1873 ) was a politician and novelist British nineteenth century.
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Biography
Edward Bulwer-Lytton was born on 25 May 1803 at Heydon Hall ( Norfolk ) was educated at Trinity College (Cambridge) and Trinity Hall.
He started as a writer of poems by imitation of Lord Byron , he wrote more than two dozen novels over a period of forty-five years, exploring many genres. He graduated in 1828 with great success by his first novel, Pelham or the Adventures of a gentleman, soon followed by Godolphin, the Pilgrims of the Rhine, the Last Days of Pompeii, Rienzi and The Last of the Tribunes, who makes his famous name in Europe.
Member of the House of Commons from 1831 to 1841 , he declares it to reform. In 1832 , he wrote some time the Monthly magazine, where he displays views that earned him the nickname Dandy radical. In 1836 he published a virulent pamphlet against the Conservative ministry of Robert Peel and, in 1846 , New Timon, where he gave a series of portraits of statesmen contemporaries. He sits back in the House of Commons from 1852 to 1866 , when he agrees to Lord Derby , with the title of Lord , a seat in the Upper House.
Family
His wife Rosina ( one thousand eight hundred and two - 1,882 ) and his son Robert ( 1831 - in 1891 ) have also made a reputation in letters.
His brother Henry ( 1,804 - 1 872 ) has filled several diplomatic posts, and published several books of circumstance.
Works
Novels
- Pelham or Adventures of a Gentleman, 1828
- Devereux, 1829
- The Disowned, 1829
- Paul Clifford, 1830
- Eugene Aram, 1832
- Godolphin, 1833
- Falkland, 1834
- The Last Days of Pompeii , a historical novel, 1834
- The Student, 1835
- Rienzi or last of the Tribunes, 1835
- Ernest Maltravers, 1837
- Alice or the Mysteries, 1838
- Night and morning, 1841
- Zanoni, Master Rose-Croix, 1842
- The Last of the Barons, 1843
- Lucretius, 1846
- Harold, or the last of the Saxon kings, 1848
- Memoirs of Pisistratus Caxton, 1849
- My Novel, 1853
- What will he?, 1859
- A strange story, 1862
- The race to come ... that which we exterminate Plays
- The Young Lady of Lyons (The Lady of Lyons), 1838
- Richelieu, 1839
- Currency (Money), 1840
Prices Bulwer-Lytton
In 1982 , the State University San Jose ( California ) created the Bulwer-Lytton prize , which aims to reward every year the worst opening sentence of a novel or new. The name of the award is because at the first celebration, the first place was awarded posthumously to Edward Bulwer-Lytton, first sentence of Paul Clifford : "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night ... "(Which translates as" it was a dark stormy night ... ").
In fact, this phrase has since returned to the collective imagery to describe an early noir, for example, the character of Snoopy by Schulz created, trying desperately to write a novel, and gets stuck on the same sentence.
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