Falkland, Complete

Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 202K words
Chapters: 21

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Falkland, Complete by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton LyttonAuthor: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873,Language: English, Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature, Release Date: Nov 27, 2004

Editor's review

Falkland is a novel by the English writer Baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a classic of English literature now offered as a free eBook by Project Gutenberg. It suits readers who wish to encounter the nineteenth-century English novel tradition and become acquainted with Bulwer-Lytton's narrative style. As a public-domain eBook, it is easy to obtain and convenient to search and excerpt on screen. While reading, pay attention to the relationship between psychological portrayal and plot development, and consider how early popular fiction balanced drama with moral questions. Note that the book is in the original English and was written long ago, so its language habits differ from contemporary English; the electronic formatting may also differ from a printed book. It is best treated as supplementary reading in English literature rather than a first choice for beginners. For researchers, it can serve as a supplementary text for studying Bulwer-Lytton's work or the landscape of the nineteenth-century English novel.

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English-literature enthusiasts seeking to broaden their reading of nineteenth-century English fiction
Readers studying Bulwer-Lytton or Victorian popular fiction
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Read a chapter summary or introduction first and clarify the characters' relationships before entering the main text
Mark unfamiliar expressions and look them up together rather than interrupting the reading rhythm frequently
Pair the reading with introductions to other works by Bulwer-Lytton to build an overall impression of his style

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Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873 Author

Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton (1803–1873) was an English novelist, playwright and politician. The library holds 220 of his works, spanning a wide range of subjects: the historical novel The Last Days of Pompeii, set against the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79; Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes, on the Roman tribune Cola di Rienzo; and Eugene Aram, a narrative drawn from a criminal case. He also wrote society novels such as Pelham, the family portrait The Caxtons, and the historical study Athens: Its Rise and Fall; the short tale The Haunted and the Haunters, or The House and the Brain reflects his interest in the supernatural. His style is ornate and his plots elaborate, combining romantic colouring with social satire. Public information is limited, and systematic Chinese-language appraisal of his life and work remains scarce.