The complete online text of Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book III. by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton.

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 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...

Geoffrey Wansell makes his intentions clear in the preface of "Terence Rattigan," his biography of the highly successful English playwright who became almost an overnight outcast in the late 1950s: He is out to rehabilitate Rattigan's critical reputation. Mr. Wansell's plea is more...