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The Last Days of Pompeii

by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1803–1873)

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  • 55 chapters
  • Reading level: 7th grade

"The Last Days of Pompeii" by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton is a novel written in 1834. Set in first-century Pompeii, it follows Athenian nobleman Glaucus and his love for the beautiful Ione, threatened by the malevolent Egyptian sorcerer Arbaces. As Arbaces schemes to destroy their happiness through murder and deception, Mount Vesuvius rumbles ominously above. The story weaves together romance, betrayal, and religious conflict, building toward the catastrophic eruption that will consume the city in AD 79.

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  • Historical fiction
  • Pompeii (Extinct city)

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Chapter I

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF POMPEII.

'HO, Diomed, well met! Do you sup with Glaucus to-night?' said a young man of small stature, who wore his tunic in those loose and effeminate folds which proved him to be a gentleman and a coxcomb.

'Alas, no! dear Clodius; he has not invited me,' replied Diomed, a man of portly frame and of middle age. 'By Pollux, a scurvy trick! for they say his suppers are the best in Pompeii'.

'Pretty well—though there is never enough of wine for me. It is not the old Greek blood that flows in his veins, for he pretends that wine makes him dull the next morning.'

'There may be another reason for that thrift,' said Diomed, raising his brows. 'With all his conceit and extravagance he is not so rich, I fancy, as he affects to be, and perhaps loves to save his amphorae better than his wit.'

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Contents

Show all 55 chapters
  1. Chapter I
  2. Chapter II
  3. Chapter III
  4. Chapter IV
  5. Chapter V
  6. Chapter VI
  7. Chapter VII
  8. Chapter VIII
  9. Chapter I: A Flash House in Pompeii, and the Gentlemen of the Classic Ring
  10. Chapter II
  11. Chapter III
  12. Chapter IV
  13. Chapter V
  14. Chapter VI
  15. Chapter VII
  16. Chapter VIII: The Solitude and Soliloquy of the Egyptian. His Character Analysed
  17. Chapter IX
  18. Chapter I
  19. Chapter II
  20. Chapter III
  21. Chapter IV
  22. Chapter V
  23. Chapter VI
  24. Chapter VII
  25. Chapter VIII
  26. Chapter IX
  27. Chapter X
  28. Chapter XI
  29. Chapter I
  30. Chapter II
  31. Chapter III
  32. Chapter IV
  33. Chapter V
  34. Chapter VI
  35. Chapter VII
  36. Chapter VIII
  37. Chapter IX
  38. Chapter X
  39. Chapter XI
  40. Chapter XII
  41. Chapter XIII
  42. Chapter XIV
  43. Chapter XV
  44. Chapter XVI
  45. Chapter XVII
  46. Chapter I: The Dream of Arbaces. A Visitor and a Warning to the Egyptian
  47. Chapter II
  48. Chapter III
  49. Chapter IV: The Amphitheatre Once More
  50. Chapter V
  51. Chapter VI
  52. Chapter VII
  53. Chapter VIII
  54. Chapter IX
  55. Chapter X

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This free edition of The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #1565, released 2006-02-19. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Historical Novels, Novels, Classics of Literature.

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