by Edward Bulwer-Lytton · tapa dura · ISBN 9788437214863
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Los últimos días de Pompeya» is the adventure novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published by Altea in hardback (140 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the city of Pompeii in the years before the eruption of Vesuvius, the novel interweaves the love, ambition and conspiracies of its inhabitants. Daily life, temples, baths and the amphitheatre serve as the backdrop to a story in which the final catastrophe shapes the fate of all the characters.
1980 edition, part of the Clásicos Juveniles collection, with illustrations by Harold King.
Aimed at young readers beginning to explore the classics, and appealing to collectors of illustrated editions from the eighties.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, GCMG, PC was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859, as which he selected Richard Clement Moody to found British Columbia. He was created Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866.
