Word: bulwer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bulwer and Disraeli", Dr. Maynadier, Sever...
Aside from the autographed volumes on exhibit, there is a whole case of letters, written by such people as Florence Nightingale, Horace Walpole, Max Muller, John Stuart Mille. Bulwer Lyton, John Tyndell, John Drinkwater, E. A. Robinson and Donald MacMillan...
...terrible subterranean roaring, cracking, quaking continued spasmodically, with violent surface undulations, the terror of which can be imagined only by those who have experienced it or who have read Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Last Days of Pompeii...
...days of indignant editorials in the press about Trashy Literature: ". . . We allude to the productions of Bulwer, Dickens and others in England . . ." (the American Notes had not yet been forgotten nor forgiven) - "and those of Sue and others [presumably Dumas] in France; all of which are abominable trash and hardly worth the paper on which they are printed. . . ." But, by way of contrast, and apparently commended, the vogue for Literary Annuals and Gift Books- the Casket of Love, Deivdrops Gathered and Presented in Their Brightness and Purity, the Cypress Wreath, a Book of Consolation for Those Who Mourn...
DESOLATE SPLENDOR?Michael Sadleir?Putnam ($2.00). Here is all the mechanism of a mid-Victorian thriller, set forth in a suavely rococo style, at times a trifle suggestive of Bulwer-Lytton?a Ouida plot elaborated with deliberate ornateness. The wicked Earl paints his eyelids. The innocent ward of a charming ex-roué, Charles Plethern, is nearly entrapped into an infamous bargain by Plethern's monstrous mother. The last, by the way, is an admirable character?a sleek, powerful woman who collects Rops etchings and erotic playing-cards and lives in a tower shudderously spoken of as the Devil's Candle...