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Athens: Its Rise and Fall

By Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

2020-07-03 04:29:52

Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton was once Britain's most famous historical novelist, rivaling and outselling Dickens in his day. His best-known book was The Last Days of Pompeii, yet he was also responsible for a great work of history. Athens: Its Rise and F ... Read more
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton was once Britain's most famous historical novelist, rivaling and outselling Dickens in his day. His best-known book was The Last Days of Pompeii, yet he was also responsible for a great work of history. Athens: Its Rise and Fall, originally published in 1837, is the most important and readable of the Victorian histories of ancient Greece. It stands alongside Macauley and Carlyle as a great historical work of British Romanticism and anticipates the thinking of George Grote and John Stuart Mill on Greek history by over a decade. Less

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File size621.293 KB
Print pages656
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781406552515
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Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig MP from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative MP fr...

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