Greatest Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Paul Clifford, The Last Days of Pompeii, Alice or The Mysteries, Zanoni, Lucretia, The Haunted and the Haunters, A Strange Story & Vril: The Power of the Coming Race

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873), was an English politician and novelist. He financed his extravagant life with a varied and prolific literary output, sometimes publishing anonymously; writing in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, mystery, romance, occult, and science fiction. He coined phrases that would become clichés, like "the great unwashed", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and "It was a dark and stormy night". This collection, contains his best works, in their original editions: Paul Clifford (1830), The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), Alice, or The Mysteries (1838), Zanoni (1842), Lucretia, or The Children of the Night (1846), The Haunted and the Haunters or The House and the Brain (1859), A Strange Story (1862), & Vril: The Power of the Coming Race (1871), the story of a subterranean race waiting to reclaim the surface of the Earth.