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Updated: June 9, 2025
It is probable that this work will prove more popular in its nature than my last fiction of "Zanoni," which could only be relished by those interested in the examinations of the various problems in human life which it attempts to solve.
Did he see him whom Bulwer Lytton in Zanoni calls 'the dweller of the threshold'? I don't know, but certain it is that he fainted from horror and returned to France exhausted, half dead." "Evidently all is not rosy in that line of work," said Durtal. "But it is only spirits of Evil that can be evoked?"
The great show at Olympia was at its height; the packed house was roaring with delight over the daring equestrianship of "Mlle. Marie de Zanoni," and the sound of the cheers rolled in to the huge dressing-tent, where the artists awaited their several turns, and the chevalier, in spangled trunks and tights, all ready for his call, sat hugging his child and shivering like a man with the ague.
In the "New World" Froissart gave his chronicles of the olden time, and the mammoth sheets of "Era" and "The Notion" brought us the peerless pages of "Zanoni," or led us away with "Dickens" and "Little Nell," by the green glades and ancient churches of England.
"I read all the novels I can get," she said yesterday; "but I only like the good ones. I do so like Zanoni, which I have just finished." I must set her to work at some of the masters. I should like some of those fretful New-York heiresses to see how this woman lives. I wish, too, that half a dozen of ces messieurs of the clubs might take a peep at the present way of life of their humble servant.
In the novel of society with Pelham ; the novel of crime with Eugene Aram and Zanoni ; the novel of passion and a sort of mystery with Ernest Maltravers and Alice; the historic romance with The Last Days of Pompeii , The Last of the Barons , and Harold , he made marks deep and early. When the purely domestic kind came in he made them, earlier and deeper still, with The Caxtons , My Novel , etc.
The fellow with an exhaustless stock of elixir vitae isn't half worked out in fiction yet and besides, how can a person reread his 'Wandering Jew, and his 'Last Days of Pompeii, and his 'Zanoni, with such an outlandish picture as a mystic under a lamp-warmed vase in mind?
Other characteristic novels of his are 'The Last Days of Pompeii, 'Ernest Maltravers, 'Zanoni, 'The Caxtons, 'My Novel, 'What Will He Do with It? 'A Strange Story, 'The Coming Race, and 'Kenelm Chillingly, the last of which appeared in the year of the author's death, 1873. The student who has read these books will know all that is worth knowing of Bulwer's work.
He continued his literary labours with almost unabated energy until the end of his life, his works later than those already mentioned including the Last of the Barons , Harold , the famous triad of The Caxtons , My Novel , and What will he do with it? ; and his studies in the supernatural, Zanoni , and A Strange Story . Later still were The Coming Race and Kenelm Chillingly . To the drama he contributed three plays which still enjoy popularity, The Lady of Lyons, Richelieu, both , and Money . In poetry he was less successful.
'The Last Days of Pompeii' shall be mouthed out grandiloquently; the incredibilities of 'The Coming Race' shall wear the guise of naïve and artless narrative; the humors of 'The Caxtons' and 'What Will He Do with It? shall reflect the mood of the sagacious, affable man of the world, gossiping over the nuts and wine; the marvels of 'Zanoni' and 'A Strange Story' must be portrayed with a resonance and exaltation of diction fitted to their transcendental claims.
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