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BULWER-LYTTON, EDWARD G.E. The Last Days of Pompeii (International Collectors Library)
International Collectors Library, 1946. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Binding tight, pages clean, bright, & unmarked. 391 pages. Original green leatherette hardcover binding with gold lettering & design, gilt top page ridge, purple ribbon marker. "The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The novel uses its characters to contrast the decadent culture of first-century Rome with both older cultures and coming trends. The protagonist, Glaucus, represents the Greeks who have been subordinated by Rome, and his nemesis Arbaces the still older culture of Egypt. Olinthus is the chief representative of the nascent Christian religion, which is presented favorably but not uncritically. The Witch of Vesuvius, though she has no supernatural powers, shows Bulwer-Lytton's interest in the occult - a theme which would emerge in his later writing, particularly The Coming Race." -- Wikipedia CONTENTS: Two Gentlemen of Pompeii; The Blind Flower-Girl, and the Beauty of Fashion; Parentage of Glaucus -- Description of the Houses of Pompeii; Temple of Isis -- The Character of Arbaces Develops Itself; More of the Flower-Girl -- The Progress of Love; The Fowler Snares Again the Bird That Had Just Escaped; The Gay Life of the Pompeian Lounger; Arbaces Cogs His Dice with Pleasure, and Wins the Game; A Flash House in Pompeii, and the Gentlemen of the Classic Ring; Two Worthies; Glaucus Makes a Purchase That Afterwards Costs Him Dear; The Rival of Glaucus Presses Onward in the Race; The Poor Tortoise -- New Changes for Nydia; The Happy Beauty and the Blind Slave; Ione Entrapped -- The Mouse Tries to Gnaw the Trap; The Solitude and Soliloquy of the Egyptian; What Becomes of Ione in House of Arbaces; The Forum of the Pompeiian -- The First Rude Machinery; The Noonday Excursion on the Campanian Seas; The Congregation; The Stream of Love Runs On -- Whither?; Nydia Encounters Julia -- An Athenian's Notion of Christianity; The Porter -- The Girl -- and the Gladiator; The Dressing-Room of a Pompeian Beauty; Julia Seeks Arbaces -- The Result of That Conversation; A Storm in the South -- The Witch's Cavern; The Lord of the Burning Belt and His Minion; Progress of Events -- The Plot Thickens -- The Web is Woven; Reflections of the Zeal of the Early Christians; A Classic Host, Cook, and Kitchen -- Apaecides Seeks Ione; A Fashionable Party and a Dinner a la Mode in Pompeii; The Story Halts for a Moment at an Episode; The Philtre -- Its Effect; A Reunion of Different Actors; In Which the Reader Learns the Condition of Glaucus; A Classic Funeral; In Which an Adventure Happens to Ione; What Becomes of Nydia in House of Arbaces; Nydia Affects the Sorceress; A Wasp Ventures into the Spider's Web; The Slave Consults the Oracle; Nydia Accosts Calenus; Arbaces and Ione -- Nydia Gains the Garden; The Sorrow of Boon Companions for Our Afflictions; A Chance for Glaucus; The Dream of Arbaces -- A Visitor and a Warning to the Egyptian; The Amphitheatre; Sallust and Nydia's Letter; The Amphitheatre Once More; The Cell of the Prisonier and the Den of the Dead; Calenus and Burbo -- Diomed and Clodius; The Progress of the Destruction; Arbaces Encounters Glaucus and Ione; The Despair of the Lovers -- The Condition of the Multitude; The Next Morning -- The Fate of Nydia; Chapter the Last -- Wherein All Things Cease.
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