Pelham; Or, The Adventures of a Gentleman by Edward George Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Fiction, Classics

By Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Book Overview

Pelham's a fine tale, but mostly it's remarkable as a classic "Fashionable Novel" -- in its day, the Fashionable Novel was a genre unto itself, focusing on the manners, habits and lifestyles of the Rich and Famous of the first half of the 19th century -- the jet set of its day. Pelham's sparkling cynicism makes fun of the genre as it executes it gorgeously; it also sheds an amazing light on a time and circumnstance well removed from our own.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592245234
• ISBN13: 9781592245239
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"