In his own time, this author was popular for a trilogy of novels about Lionel Hastings. That work is set in the Middle Ages, includes a novel subtitled "A Family Picture," and concludes with What Will He Do with It? An interest in Rosicrucianism and the arcane arts led this author to tell the tale of a man who loses the power of immortality after he falls in love with Viol
In his own time, this author was popular for a trilogy of novels about Lionel Hastings. That work is set in the Middle Ages, includes a novel subtitled "A Family Picture," and concludes with What Will He Do with It? An interest in Rosicrucianism and the arcane arts led this author to tell the tale of a man who loses the power of immortality after he falls in love with Viola Pisani in another of his novels. In addition to writing Zanoni, another of this author's works was the literary inspiration for Wagner's opera Rienzi of the Tribunes. Late novels, such as Vril: The Coming Race, are the basis for some of the precepts of theosophy, as is the character of the Vesuvius Witch in his historical romance The Last Days of Pompeii. For 10 points, identify this author of the Victorian era whose novel Paul Clifford contains the infamous line "it was a dark and stormy night."
In his own time, this author was popular for a trilogy of novels about Lionel Hastings.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton