Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book II

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

1803–1873

Best remembered today for "The Last Days of Pompeii" and the line "It was a dark and stormy night," this prolific Victorian writer was once one of the most widely read authors in Britain. He also had a full political career, bringing public life and popular storytelling together in a very 19th-century way.