A Dark and Stormy Oeuvre

Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a prolific and influential novelist, inspiring Edgar Allan Poe, H. Rider Haggard and Madame Blavatsky, among others. This book covers Bulwer-Lytton's novels in detail, exploring their influence on writers and film makers and, via Richard Wagner's operatic adaptation of Rienzi, the catastrophe of Adolf Hitler.