British author Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) wrote Falkland, Pelham, and Eugene Aram. These novels won instant success and made him a wealthy man. As a result, he entered Parliament as a liberal member representing St. Ives, Huntingdonshire. Bulwer-Ly...
In his own day, Bulwer's position among the most unquestionably popular and the most critically esteemed novelists seemed firmly established. As with so many Victorian writers, though, his fortunes declined drastically after his death, and not until fair...
In his own lifetime, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, better known by his pseudonym Owen Meredith, was much more highly regarded as a poet than he is today. His lyrics were praised by discriminating critics, and he was especially well received in America, wh...
The Living and the Dead. The Rise and Fall of the Cult of World War II in Russia, by Nina Tumarkin. New York, Basic Books, 1994. xii, 242 pp. $22.00. In recent years conventional wisdom asserted that Marxists failed to appreciate the force...
The scope of this book is very broad. It covers the period from the end of European feudalism to the 1990s. The author, Professor of Economics at the University of Utrecht, provides us with a broad theory of how capitalism grows. Around his theory...
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