Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward George Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Biography & Autobiography, Historical, Europe & Italy

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. . . having had occasion to read the original authorities from which modern historians have drawn their accounts of the life of Rienzi, I was led to believe that a very remarkable man had been superficially judged, and a very important period crudely examined. And this belief was sufficiently strong to induce me at first to meditate a more serious work upon the life and times of Rienzi. I have taken a view of his character different in some respects from that of Gibbon or Sismondi. But it is a view, in all its main features, which I believe (and think I could prove) myself to be warranted in taking, not less by the facts of History than the… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-59224-524-6
EAN: 9781592245246
Produktnummer: 24943083
Verlag: Wildside Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 508 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.9 cm 772 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 772

Über den Autor

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (1803 - 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases the great unwashed, pursuit of the almighty dollar, the pen is mightier than the sword, dweller on the threshold and the well-known opening line It was a dark and stormy night.