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About the Author
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an exremely popular English writer who coined such phrases as "the pen is mightier than the sword".
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Product details
Grade Level: 2 - 3
Series: Classics Illustrated (Book 28)
Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: Classics Illustrated Comics; UK first ed edition (November 5, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906814546
ISBN-13: 978-1906814540
Product Dimensions:
6.4 x 0.2 x 9.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.5 out of 5 stars
84 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#1,177,910 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
If ever there was a novel which told a most wonderful tale of a doomed city, it was "The Last Days of Pompeii" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Pompeii was a city in Campania of Italy that was in buried under ash by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Despite the rapid progress of the eruption, many people escaped death by sailing away in boats. "The Last Days of Pompeii" tells a story which takes place before, during and after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.The main characters of the novel are Glaucus, an Athenian, Ione, the woman he loves, and Nydia, his beautiful slave girl. Nydia, for me, was the most romantic female character of the book. She is blind but can sing beautiful songs. Although Glaucus is in love with Ione, I wished when I was reading the book that he would instead fall in love with Nydia. The villain of the story is a mystic called Arbaces who owns a mansion. Although he has great knowledge, he is despicable to the core. He converts Ione's brother Apaecides to the cult of Isis, but Apaecides becomes disenchanted with it. Arbaces plans to somehow become the husband of Ione, but she wants to marry Glaucus."The Last Days of Pompeii" has a gladiatorial tournament which is want one normally finds in a novel about ancient Rome. It also has a witch. The Christian religion makes up an important part of the message of the book. The Christians are portrayed as the good guys.The final part of the book covers the eruption and the eruption is covered with detail. I don't know if Edward Bulwer-Lytton researched volcanic eruptions before writing the book but his details on the eruption of Vesuvius seem from my amateur knowledge of volcanoes to be very accurate.The edition of this book which I read on the Kindle is the edition with a blue and eggshell colored cover and it is a perfect edition and I couldn't have asked for a better Kindle edition of this book.The novel "The Last Days of Pompeii" has a great storyline, great romance and the character Nydia will remain in my memory.
Although some of the names were difficult to sort out at first, the story moved along well enough that I was able to keep up. It wasn't long until I was totally engrossed in this magnificent tale. Everything a good book should have was included; love, hate, jealousy, murder, poisoning, bloodletting, betrayal, magic. religion, potions, drama and tragedy. It is, of course, based on a real event in history, and by fictionalizing it, it made for a wonderful reading. I would definitely recommend it even if it weren't a free download.
This particular author is known for over-the-top, wordy writing, and he lives up to his reputation with this book. His style takes a bit of getting used to, but it is refreshing in its purity. This book is unabashedly a moral tale; the end result of evil is destruction. Good overcomes. I liked this clear distinction.His description of the eruption itself suffers because, of course, nobody knew at the time he wrote it what actually caused the rapid and total obliteration of the city. They didn't know of pyroclastic flows, but this is easily ignored.I don't need a pictorial; I've seen pictures of Pompeii from other sources. My imagination was more that enough to provide visuals. Pompeii is just the setting of the story. The author isn't attempting to be an architect or socialogist or archaeologist.As to this story as a pitch for Christianity-this is book is mild. I've read many well-known classic books advocating Christianity with a heavier hand than this. In fact, the author chides Christians of his own time more than once through this story for their lack of tolerance (old use of this word) for those of other faiths whom they wish to convert.The book is free probably because it long ago came into public domain. There is nothing to lose by "buying" it.
I've read this book when I was fifteen years old and the story stayed with me till today so I was trilled to see it on kindle.The story was as engrossing as I remembered it and some of the characters so appealing that I've found myself rooting for the good guys and appalled with the bad ones once more.Yes the description of Vesuvius' eruption is not exactly accurate, since we have a lot more information of what came out of that volcano in our days, however the description the author does of the houses, baths etc is a plus as it teaches us a lot of the terms they used through the daily life of the characters.Also the fact that the author went to Pompeii and came up with the background for some of the people's remains (which have been frozen in time so many centuries ago) gave another dimension to the story.So much better than some of the reading I've been experiencing from new authors...
I got this "free" Kindle classic to read prior to an upcoming trip to Italy. I had briefly visited Pompeii about 12 years earlier on a Naples cruise stop and was going to be returning. I felt this book would refresh my memory while enjoying a fictional story line. While reading it, I kept telling myself I was glad I'd been to Pompeii and could actually visualize the city. I also kept telling myself I was glad I was going back. Plenty of intrigue with Roman politics and plotting among Pompeii's wealthy and decadent citizens provided a good and seemingly accurate background for the culture of Pompeii prior to its Vesuvian demise. Initially, the ancient Roman names of characters, made it bit difficult to keep the characters straight, but not nearly as difficult as Colleen McCoullough's Roman series. I would recommend this to anybody interested in ancient Roman culture, politics, religions, architecture and ruins. And, I highly recommend to anyone who has visited or plans to visit Pompeii.
Almost unreadable, the overly flowery, stylized language makes you feel like you're walking through mud in search of a plot. Could not make it to the actual eruption. You can see where Hollywood got it's image of life in ancient Roman times- everyone walks about drinking wine and wearing togas and lounging about waiting for something to happen to ruin their paradise. Dull.
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