Godolphin & The Last Days of Pompeii

• This Kindle edition binds together two of Edward Bulwer-Lytton;s most popular novels: Godolphin & The Last Days of Pompeii

About The Author
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist and politician.who coined phrases including "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and "It was a dark and stormy night."

Godolphin (1833)
British author and politician Edward Bulwer-Lytton dabbles in the occult in this book, written at the height of his
popularity. .... "The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.‎"

The Last Days of Pompeii (1834)
The characters in The Last Days of Pompeii uses contrast the decadent culture of 1st-century Rome with older cultures and new trends. It culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
The novel was written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834 after he was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov.