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Bulwer-Lytton

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Bul·wer-Lyt·ton  (blwr-ltn), Edward George Earle Lytton. First Baron Lytton. 1803-1873.
British writer best known for his popular historical novels, especially The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), and for his convoluted prose style.
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Noun1.Bulwer-LyttonBulwer-Lytton - English writer of historical romances (1803-1873)


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Bulwer-Lytton, an English statesman and poet during the 19th century, captured the dilemma: "Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is a gift of few.
Nearly two centuries earlier, it was home for Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a monumentally unreadable writer who first penned the words ``It was a dark and stormy night.
Humor is the sunshine of the mind," noted Edward George Bulwer-Lytton.
 
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