He wrote the failed epic King Arthur shortly before turning to realism with the 1853 work
He wrote the failed epic King Arthur shortly before turning to realism with the 1853 work My Novel and the three-volume novel The Caxtons. He established himself as a popular writer with Pelham, and continually anticipated changing public tastes in novels like Eugene Aram, Zanoni, Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings, and Paul Clifford, the last of which opens with the line "It was a dark and stormy night", thus inspiring the award for bad writing named for him. FTP, who was this author perhaps best known for The Last Days of Pompeii?
He wrote the failed epic King Arthur shortly before turning to realism with the 1853 work
Edward Bulwer-Lytton