Short novel e-books (2h to read) of Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

THE FALLEN STAR, or, THE HISTORY OF A FALSE RELIGION by E. L. Bulwer and, A DISSERTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF EVIL by Lord Brougham PUBLISHER'S PREFACE RELIGION, says Noah Webster in his _Ame...

FALKLAND By Edward Bulwer-Lytton PREFATORY NOTE TO THE PRESENT EDITION.

CHAPTER I. Amoung the frets and checks to the course that "never did run smooth," there is one which is sufficiently frequent, for many a reader will remember the irritation it caused him.

and David Widger PAUL CLIFFORD, Volume 4. By Edward Bulwer Lytton CHAPTER XVI. Whackum.

CHAPTER I. In the gardens at Naples, one summer evening in the last century, some four or five gentlemen were seated under a tree drinking their sherbet and listening, in the intervals of conversa...

CHAPTER I. The Antechamber CHAPTER II. The Lover and the Confidant CHAPTER III. A Rival CHAPTER IV. Civil Ambition, and Ecclesiastical CHAPTER V. The true Fate of Morgana CHAPTER VI. Web upon ...

and David Widger CHAPTER XIII. The next day I had just dismissed the last of my visiting patients, and was about to enter my carriage and commence my round, when I received a twisted note con...

Si ad honestatem nati sumus ea aut sola expetenda est, aut certe omni pondere gravior est habenda quam reliqua omnia.

and David Widger PAUL CLIFFORD, Volume 2. By Edward Bulwer Lytton CHAPTER VII. Begirt with many a gallant slave, Apparelled as becomes the brave, Old Giaffir sat in his di...

And now I'm the world alone, .

CHAPTER I. It is several weeks after the date of the last chapter; the lime-trees in the Tuileries are clothed in green.

and David Widger PART THE SECOND.

and David Widger PAUL CLIFFORD, Volume 3. By Edward Bulwer-Lytton CHAPTER XII. Up rouse ye then, My merry, merry men!

It is many days since I wrote to you, and but for your delightful note just received, reproaching me for silence, I should still be under the spell of that awe which certain words of M. Savarin wer...

K. Henry.

Mangez-vous bien, Monsieur?

CHAPTER I. Ou peut-on etre mieux qu'au sein de sa famille?

and David Widger PAUL CLIFFORD PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1840.

CHAPTER I. The next day at noon M. Louvier was closeted in his study with M. Gandrin.

and David Widger CHAPTER LXXIV.

and David Widger PAUL CLIFFORD, Volume 5. By Edward Bulwer-Lytton CHAPTER XXII.

and David Widger CHAPTER XXV.

It must be confessed, that flattery comes mighty easily to one's mouth in the presence of royalty.

Cum pulchris tunicis sumet nova consilia et spes.

and David Widger PAUL CLIFFORD, Volume 7. By Edward Bulwer-Lytton CHAPTER XXXIV.

CHAPTER I. NEVER in his whole life had the mind of Sir Peter been so agitated as it was during and after the perusal of Kenelm's flighty composition.

and David Widger PAUL CLIFFORD, Volume 6. By Edward Bulwer-Lytton CHAPTER XXVIII.

CHAPTER I. SIR PETER had not heard from Kenelm since a letter informing him that his son had left town on an excursion, which would probably be short, though it might last a few weeks; and the goo...

CHAPTER I. SIR PETER CHILLINGLY, of Exmundham, Baronet, F.R.S. and F.A.S., was the representative of an ancient family, and a landed proprietor of some importance.

and David Widger CHAPTER VIII. THE DISCOVERY.

and David Widger CHAPTER LXIV.

and David Widger LUCRETIA by Edward Bulwer Lytton PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1853.

CHAPTER I. IF there were a woman in the world who might be formed and fitted to reconcile Kenelm Chillingly to the sweet troubles of love and the pleasant bickerings of wedded life, one might reas...

CHAPTER I. Remarks on the Effects of War.--State of Athens.--Interference of Sparta with respect to the Fortifications of Athens.--Dexterous Conduct of Themistocles.--The New Harbour of the Piraeu...

Love is better than a pair of spectacles, to make every thing seem greater which is seen through it.

and David Widger CHAPTER III. CONFERENCES.

and David Widger, ERNEST MALTRAVERS BY EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (Lord Lytton) DEDICATION: TO THE GREAT GERMAN PEOPLE, A race of thinkers and of critics; A foreign but familiar audienc...

and David Widger CHAPTER VII. THE RAPE OF THE MATTRESS.

"It was no bad idea of yours, Pisistratus," said my father, graciously, "to depict the heightened affections and the serious intention of Signor Riccabocca by a single stroke,-- /He left of his spe...

and David Widger CHAPTER XVIII. RETROSPECT.

Let a Physician be ever so excellent, there will be those that censure him.

and David Widger, DEVEREUX BY EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (Lord Lytton) ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT EDITION.

and David Widger ZICCI A Tale By Edward Bulwer-Lytton BOOK ...

By Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton) CHAPTER XLII.

CHAPTER I. Envy will be a science when it learns the use of the microscope.

and David Widger CHAPTER XXI.

AUF.--"Whence comest thou--what wouldst thou?"

SPINOZA is said to have loved, above all other amusements, to put flies into a spider's web; and the struggles of the imprisoned insects were wont to bear, in the eyes of this grave philosopher, so...

IT had, when I first went to town, just become the fashion for young men of fortune to keep house, and to give their bachelor establishments the importance hitherto reserved for the household of a ...

JAM veniet virgo, jam dicetur Hymenaeus, Hymen, O Hymenae!