The Last Days of Pompeii (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Edward Bulwer Lytton Bart

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133034622X ISBN 13 : 9781330346228

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Step back to ancient Pompeii, where a vivid city life collides with fate and a deadly secret.

Set among the ruins, this historical tale follows lovers Glaucus and Lone on a sunlit journey toward a grove by Vesuvius. As they explore gardens, temples, and bustling streets, the city’s splendor—and its peril—unfold around them. A web of intrigue draws in a charismatic Egyptian figure and a mysterious witch, weaving magic, ambition, and danger into the day-to-day life of a pivotal era.

Across the theater, forum, and baths, readers encounter the customs, landscapes, and social tensions of a civilization at a turning point. The plot blends romance with suspense, as characters confront betrayal, fate, and the erupting volcano that looms over the story’s heart.

• Experience vivid scenes of daily life in a bustling ancient city


• Meet vivid characters driven by love, rivalry, and hidden agendas


• Follow a tale where magic and superstition shape choices


• Explore the tension between grand Rome and the fate of Pompeii

Ideal for readers who enjoy immersive historical fiction with atmosphere, danger, and romance.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Last Days of Pompeii

The characters, therefore, are the natural offspring of the scene and time. The incidents of the tale are equally consonant, perhaps, to the then existent soci ety; for it is not only the ordinary habits of life, the feasts and the forum, the baths and the amphitheatre, the commonplace routine of the classic luxury, which we recall the past to behold -equally important, and more deeply interesting, are the passions, the crimes, the misfortunes, and reverses that might have chanced to the shades we thus summon to life We understand any epoch of the world but ill if we do not examine its romance. There is as much truth in the poetry of life as in its prose.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133034622X
• ISBN 13: 9781330346228
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 589
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