Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

An English politician, poet, playwright, and prolific novelist. 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*", and that famous opening line, "*it was a dark and stormy night*."

Known for

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The Last Days of Pompeii (1800)
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Zanoni (1842)
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Harold (1848)
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Rienzi, the last of the Roman tribunes (1800)
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Paul Clifford (1800)
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Pelham (1828)
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The Parisians (1850)
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Eugene Aram (1800)
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The Coming Race (1871)
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The Haunted and the Haunters, Or, The House and the Brain (1800)
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