The complete online text of My Novel — Volume 03 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...

If my psychiatrist hadn't been an old friend as well as a man who suffers fools gladly, I probably never would have called his office for an appointment. My symptoms, as I recited them, seemed more silly than deranged: a recurring dream in which...

OK, so by this time you've gone through all those cotton candy summer beach reads. Sure, they were fun, but now you're ready for some substance and maybe a little something out of the ordinary, right? I went back to some of the writers...