Book 1 Dec 1964

Last Days of Pompeii (Everyman Paperbacks)

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Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
Published: 1 December 1964

Fiction
Historical fiction
Pompeii (Extinct city)
Eruption, 79
Civilization, Greco-Roman
Fiction, historical, general
Italy, fiction
Electronic books

A historical novel set in the days immediately before the destruction of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. Bulwer-Lytton attempts to show the contrast between the decadent lifestyle of the 1st century Romans and the more conservative Greeks.