Falkland, Book 4.
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Literature students and scholars studying the nineteenth-century English novel
- Readers with a systematic reading plan for Bulwer-Lytton's works
- Researchers who need public-domain English texts from Project Gutenberg for textual analysis
- Enthusiasts accustomed to reading Victorian prose fiction
Not a good fit for
- Readers of contemporary genre fiction who seek fast pacing and strong conflict
- Learners whose English reading ability is not yet sufficient for nineteenth-century style
- Readers who want a stand-alone volume and do not care about connections to earlier books
Reading tips
- First learn the outlines of the first three books of Falkland before starting Book 4, to avoid disconnection in the plot.
- Take notes on the development of character relationships and moral issues for easy review.
- Read alongside background material on nineteenth-century English society to understand the era's ideas in the narrative.
- When reading the English original, divide long sentences into their main structure first, then handle the modifiers.
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Contents
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
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About the 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.
