![]() In it, we already see his liking for the atmospheric night-time scene (he has a fairly memorable one in which the co-protagonists of his story take a night-time stroll, discuss matters of life and death, and one of them, who has been experiencing premonitions of his death all evening, is murdered - in mistake for a prominent politician). ![]() The Disowned (1828) is apparently Bulwer's 3rd novel, well before he reached the height of his popularity. However, now and again, he goes off into a rabbit-hole of one of his own philosophical enthusiasms to the immediate detriment of the story at hand. ![]() ![]() Bulwer-Lytton is a guilty pleasure for me he's nowhere near as good a writer as some of his Victorian contemporaries, but I love his silly, pompous coinages based on Latin and Greek roots, and if you just go with the flow when he goes off on some lengthy philosophical or moral tangent, sometimes what he has to say can be quite interesting. ![]()
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