Eugene Aram - Softcover

Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592248845 ISBN 13: 9781592248841

Publisher: Borgo Pr, 2002

Synopsis

Was Eugene Aram a murderer -- or an important part of our cultural heritage? Or was he both? Eugene Aram was the first to recognize that the Celtic languages were related to the other languages of Europe. In 1758, while at work on an Anglo-Celtic dictionary, he was arrested (and eventually hanged) for the murder, 14 years earlier, of his friend Daniel Clark. A hundred years later, Bulwer-Lytton wrote this book about the man, the contradiction, the time and the place. Like all of Bulwer-Lytton's underrated work, it has a beautiful, discursive, and profound quality.

About this title

About the Author:

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873), was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", "dweller on the threshold", and the well-known opening line "It was a dark and stormy night".

About this edition

• Publisher: Borgo Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1592248845
• ISBN 13: 9781592248841
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324