The Last Days of Pompeii
Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Baron
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The Last Days of Pompeii
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The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan. It culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
The novel uses its characters to contrast the decadent culture of 1st-century Rome with both older cultures and coming trends. The protagonist, Glaucus, represents the Greeks who have been subordinated by Rome, and his nemesis Arbaces the still older culture of Egypt. Olinthus is the chief representative of the nascent Christian religion, which is presented favourably but not uncritically. The Witch of Vesuvius, though she has no supernatural powers, shows Bulwer-Lytton's interest in the occult – a theme which would emerge in his later writing, particularly The Coming Race.
A popular sculpture by American sculptor Randolph Rogers, Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii (1856), was based on a character from the book.
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THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII
BOOK THE FIRST
Chapter I.
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF POMPEII.
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
MORE OF THE FLOWER-GIRL. THE PROGRESS OF LOVE.
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
ARBACES COGS HIS DICE WITH PLEASURE AND WINS THE GAME.
BOOK THE SECOND
Chapter I
A FLASH HOUSE IN POMPEII, AND THE GENTLEMEN OF THE CLASSIC RING.
Chapter II
TWO WORTHIES.
Chapter III
GLAUCUS MAKES A PURCHASE THAT AFTERWARDS COSTS HIM DEAR.
Chapter IV
THE RIVAL OF GLAUCUS PRESSES ONWARD IN THE RACE.
Chapter V
THE POOR TORTOISE. NEW CHANGES FOR NYDIA.
Chapter VI
THE HAPPY BEAUTY AND THE BLIND SLAVE.
Chapter VII
IONE ENTRAPPED. THE MOUSE TRIES TO GNAW THE NET.
Chapter VIII
THE SOLITUDE AND SOLILOQUY OF THE EGYPTIAN. HIS CHARACTER ANALYSED.
Chapter IX
BOOK THE THIRD
Chapter I
Chapter II
THE NOONDAY EXCURSION ON THE CAMPANIAN SEAS.
Chapter III
THE CONGREGATION.
Chapter IV
THE STREAM OF LOVE RUNS ON. WHITHER?
Chapter V
Chapter VI
THE PORTER. THE GIRL. AND THE GLADIATOR.
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
JULIA SEEKS ARBACES. THE RESULT OF THAT INTERVIEW.
Chapter IX
STORM IN THE SOUTH. THE WITCH'S CAVERN.
Chapter X
Chapter XI
BOOK THE FOURTH
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
A FASHIONABLE PARTY AND A DINNER A LA MODE IN POMPEII.
Chapter IV
THE STORY HALTS FOR A MOMENT AT AN EPISODE.
Chapter V
THE PHILTRE. ITS EFFECT.
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
A CLASSIC FUNERAL.
Chapter IX
IN WHICH AN ADVENTURE HAPPENS TO IONE.
Chapter X
Chapter XI
NYDIA AFFECTS THE SORCERESS.
Chapter XII
A WASP VENTURES INTO THE SPIDER'S WEB.
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
NYDIA ACCOSTS CALENUS.
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
A CHANCE FOR GLAUCUS.
BOOK THE FIFTH
Chapter I
Chapter II
THE AMPHITHEATRE.
Chapter III
SALLUST AND NYDIA'S LETTER.
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
THE PROGRESS OF THE DESTRUCTION.
Chapter VIII
ARBACES ENCOUNTERS GLAUCUS AND IONE.
Chapter IX
THE DESPAIR OF THE LOVERS. THE CONDITION OF THE MULTITUDE.
Chapter X
THE NEXT MORNING. THE FATE OF NYDIA.
Chapter The Last
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