Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton ~10 hr read

A rationalist physician collides with an immortal sorcerer, a magic wand, and the terrifying possibility that the soul is real.

Bulwer-Lytton's 1862 occult novel pits the coldly scientific Dr. Fenwick against Margrave, a beautiful, amoral being who may have cheated death itself, in a duel between materialism and the supernatural. A major Victorian work of the weird from the author of 'The Coming Race,' dense with mesmerism, alchemy, and metaphysical dread. Read it for a landmark of nineteenth-century occult fiction, where science and sorcery contend for a man's very soul.

In its time

Published in 1862, during the 1860s, verne launches the voyages extraordinaires.

Reading it

~10 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).