Tandis que les premiers chrétiens tentent de faire connaître leur religion dans le ville de Pompéi, le Grec Glaucus et l'Egyptien Arbacès se disputent la belle Ione. Nul ne sait que le tremblement de terre qui secoue la ville est annonciateur d'un mal bien plus important...

Né en 1803 à Londres, Edward Bulwer-Lytton connut son premier succès d'écrivain dès ses 25 ans avec son premier roman intitulé Pelham ou les aventures d'un gentleman. Trois ans plus tard il entra au parlement. Son mariage souffrit non seulement de ses activités tant politiques que littéraires mais aussi de ses infidélités.

Les Derniers Jours de Pompéi

I have spoken so much of the Vril Staff that my reader may expect me to describe it. This I cannot do accurately, for I was never allowed to handle it for fear of some terrible accident occasioned by my ignorance of its use; and I have no doubt that it requires much skill and practice in the exercise of its various powers. It is hollow, and has in the handle several stops, keys, or springs by which its force can be altered, modified, or directed-so that by one process it destroys, by another it heals-by one it can rend the rock, by another disperse the vapour-by one it affects bodies, by another it can exercise a certain influence over minds. It is usually carried in the convenient size of a walking-staff, but it has slides by which it can be lengthened or shortened at will. When used for special purposes, the upper part rests in the hollow of the palm with the fore and middle fingers protruded.

Vril: The Power of the Coming Race

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Zanoni, ou la sagesse des Rose-Croix

IT was towards the evening of a day in early April that two ladies were seated by the open windows of a cottage in Devonshire. The lawn before them was gay with evergreens, relieved by the first few flowers and fresh turf of the reviving spring; and at a distance, through an opening amongst the trees, the sea, blue and tranquil, bounded the view, and contrasted the more confined and home-like features of the scene. It was a spot remote, sequestered, shut out from the business and pleasures of the world; as such it suited the tastes and character of the owner.

That owner was the younger of the ladies seated by the window. You would scarcely have guessed, from her appearance, that she was more than seven or eight and twenty, though she exceeded by four or five years that critical boundary in the life of beauty.

Alice

Le livre que nous avons sous les yeux est bien un roman, mais ce n'est pas un roman comme les autres, car l'auteur s'est propose de nous raconter non ce qui aurait pu arriver hier, ou autrefois, mais ce qui pourrait bien arriver dans quelques siecles. Les m urs qu'il depeint ne sont pas les notres, ni celles de nos ancetres, mais celles de nos descendants. Il imagine bien une petite fable a la Jules Verne, et feint de supposer que la Race future existe des maintenant sous terre et n'attend, pour paraitre a la lumiere du soleil et pour nous exterminer, que l'heure ou elle trouvera son habitation actuelle trop etroite. Mais cet artifice de narration ne trompe personne, et il est evident que Bulwer Lytton a voulu nous donner une idee de la facon de vivre et de penser de nos arriere-neveux."

La Race Future

"Is the night calm, Constance?"

"Beautiful! the moon is up."

"Open the shutters wider, there. It is a beautiful night. How beautiful! Come hither, my child."

The rich moonlight that now shone through the windows streamed on little that it could invest with poetical attraction. The room was small, though not squalid in its character and appliances. The bed-curtains, of a dull chintz, were drawn back, and showed the form of a man, past middle age, propped by pillows, and bearing on his countenance the marks of approaching death. But what a countenance it still was! The broad, pale, lofty brow; the fine, straight, Grecian nose; the short, curved lip; the full, dimpled chin; the stamp of genius in every line and lineament;-these still defied disease, or rather borrowed from its very ghastliness a more impressive majesty.

Godolphin

C'était au commencement du mois d'avril ; le jour touchait à sa fin ; deux dames étaient assises à la fenêtre ouverte d'un cottage du Devonshire. La pelouse qui s'étendait devant elles était parsemée d'arbres verts, dont le sombre feuillage était égayé par les premières fleurs et le frais gazon du printemps. A l'horizon la mer, qu'on apercevait à traversune éclaircie des arbres, bornait la vue, et contrastait avec les aspects plus rapprochés et plus paisibles du paysage.

Fruit d'une sélection réalisée au sein des fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection XIX a pour ambition de faire découvrir des textes classiques et moins classiques dans les meilleures éditions du XIXe siècle.

Alice ou les Mystères - Roman

The Last Days of Pompeii was one of the most popular English historical novels of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of the virtuous Greeks Glaucus and Ione, their escape from Pompeii amid the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, and their eventual conversion to Christianity, against a background of Roman decadence and corrupt Eastern religion.

Les Derniers Jours de Pompéi

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