by Edward Bulwer Lytton · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253048763
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«Les derniers jours de Pompéi» is the historical novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (248 pages, in French).
Set in Pompeii in 79 AD, it contrasts the Roman decadence of the first century with older cultures and new trends. Glaucus embodies the Greeks subjugated by Rome; Arbaces, Egyptian culture; Olinthus, nascent Christianity. It culminates with the eruption of Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii.
Work originally published in 1834. This French edition includes a translation by Hippolyte Lucas and an edition by Claude Aziza.
Recommended for readers of nineteenth-century classics and historical fiction set in antiquity.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, GCMG, PC was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859, as which he selected Richard Clement Moody to found British Columbia. He was created Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866.
