The complete online text of Falkland, Book 2. 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 Falklands war of 1982 should never have begun. In trouble at home, Argentina's military junta wanted a quarrel abroad; something it could have achieved without enraging Margaret Thatcher. Her government, for its part, failed doubly in the basics of deterrence. First,...

Picton Publishing 160 pp. 29.50 [pounds] In the three centuries since 1690, when they were first claimed for Britain and named after the then Treasurer of the Navy, Lord Falkland, those wind-and-rain-swept islands in the South Atlantic have claimed a place in...