Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC (25 Mei 1803 – 18 Januari 1873), adalah novelis, penyair, pengarang lakon, dan politikus Britania Raya. Ia sangat populer di kalangan penggemar buku dan telah menulis beberapa novel laris yang menjadi sumber penghasilannya. Ia merupakan pencipta istilah "the great unwashed",[1] "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", serta kalimat pembuka "It was a dark and stormy night".[2]
The Lord Lytton | |
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| Menteri Koloni Negara | |
| Masa jabatan 5 Juni 1858 – 11 Juni 1859 | |
| Penguasa monarki | Victoria |
| Perdana Menteri | Earl Derby |
| Informasi pribadi | |
| Lahir | 25 Mei 1803 London |
| Meninggal | 18 Januari 1873 (umur 69) Torquay |
| Kebangsaan | Britania Raya |
| Partai politik | Whig Konservatif |
| Suami/istri | Rosina Doyle Wheeler (1802–1882) |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
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- Leila: or The Siege of Granada
- Calderon, the Courtier
- The Pilgrims of the Rhine
- Falkland (1827)[3]
- Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman (1828)[3]
- The Disowned (1829)
- Devereux (1829)
- Paul Clifford (1830)
- Eugene Aram (1832)
- Godolphin (1833)
- Falkland (1834)
- The Last Days of Pompeii (1834)
- Rienzi, the last of the Roman tribunes (1835)[3]
- The Student (1835)
- Ernest Maltravers (1837)
- Alice (1838)
- Night and Morning (1841)
- Zanoni (1842)
- The Last of the Barons (1843)
- Lucretia (1846)
- Harold, the Last of the Saxons (1848)[3]
- The Caxtons: A Family Picture (1849)[3]
- My Novel, or Varieties in English Life (1853)[3]
- The Haunted and the Haunters atau The House and the Brain (novellette, 1859)
- What Will He Do With It? (1858)[3]
- A Strange Story (1862)
- The Coming Race (1871), diterbitkan lagi dengan judul Vril: The Power of the Coming Race
- Kenelm Chillingly (1873)
- The Parisiens (1873, tidak selesai)[3]
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- Ismael (1820)[3]
- The New Timon (1846), serangan terhadap Tennyson yang diterbitkan secara anonim[3]
- King Arthur (1848–9) [3]
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- The Lady of Lyons (1838)
- Richelieu (1839), diadaptasi untuk film Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
- Money (1840)
- Not So Bad As We Seem, or Many Sides to a Character (1851)
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- Christensen, Allan Conrad (1976). Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Fiction of New Regions. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0-8203-0387-9.
- Christensen (Ed.), Allan Conrad (1976). The Subverting Vision of Bulwer Lytton: Bicentenary Reflections. Newark, Delaware: The University of Delaware Press. ISBN 0-87413-856-6.
- Escott, T. H. S. (1910). Edward Bulwer, First Baron Lytton of Knebworth; a Social, Personal, and Political Monograph. London: George Routledge & Sons.
- Mitchell, L. G (2003). Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters. London & New York:: Hambledon and London. ISBN 1-85285-423-5. (Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan)
- Whittington-Egan, Molly (2013) Arthur O'Shaughnessy: Music Maker (publisher Bluecoat Press)
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- Hansard 1803–2005: kontribusi di Parlemen oleh lord Lytton
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