Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Somewhere in South America, there is a plateau; and roaming in its forests are dinosaurs. Only one man has ever been there, and his reports are so astonishing that no-one is prepared to believe him; except the extraordinary Professor Challenger. He decides to take a trip to prove beyond doubt that this lost world …

The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic …

Vril je pojem, ktorý preukázateľne priniesol na svet anglický politik, básnik a spisovateľ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, ktorý napísal knihu The Coming Race, kde opisuje veľmi vyspelú rasu v podzemí, kde sa náhodou dostal spolu s priateľom pri prieskume bane. Kniha je písaná tak presvedčivo, že ju mnohí čitatelia začali …