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Bulwer-Lytton Edward
The Coming Race
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The Haunted and the Haunters
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The Last Days Of Pompeii
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VRIL: The Power of the Coming Race
DescriptionEdward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) was one of the most prolific and popular writers of the 19th century. Most of his works are now forgotten, however his science-fiction novel 'VRIL: The Power of the Coming Race' had a big impact in European occult circles, culminating in wild speculations about the existence of a secret 'Vril Society' in Nazi Germany. Now you can read Bulwer-Lytton's outlandish novel for yourself in this Black Swan Classics edition!
Harold, the last of the Saxon kings (Volume 2)
DescriptionThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1902 Excerpt: ... BOOK XII THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS CHAPTER I In the heart of the forest land in which Hilda's abode was situated, a gloomy pool reflected upon its stagnant waters the still shadows of the autumnal foliage. As is common in ancient forests in the neighbourhood of men's wants, the trees were dwarfed in height by repeated loppings, and the boughs sprang from the hollow, gnarled boles of pollard oaks and beeches; the trunks, vast in girth, and covered with mosses and whitening canker-stains, or wreaths of ivy, spoke of the most remote antiquity: but the boughs with their lingering and mutilated life put forth, were either thin arid feeble with innumerable branchlets, or were centred on some solitary distorted limb which the woodman's axe had spared. The trees thus assumed all manner of crooked, deformed, fantastic shapes--all betokening age, and all decay--all, in despite of the noiseless solitude around, proclaiming the waste and ravages of man. The time was that of the first watches of night, when the autumnal moon was brightest and broadest. You might see, on the opposite side of the pool, the antlers of the deer every now and then, moving restlessly above the fern in which they had made their couch; and, through the nearer glades, the hares and conies 227 stealing forth to sport or to feed; or the bat, wheeling low, in chase of the forest moth. From the thickest part of the copse came a slow human foot, and Hilda, emerging, paused by the waters of the pool. That serene and stony calm habitual to her features was gone; sorrow and passion had seized the soul of the Vala, in the midst of its fancied security from the troubles it presumed to foresee for others. The lines of the face were deep and care-worn--age had come on with rapid strides--and the light of the e...
Athens; Its Rise and Fall, Complete
DescriptionThe book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: History / Ancient / Greece; History / Ancient / Greece;Bulwer-Lytton Edward News![]()
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