Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1 hr 10 min read

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

This installment of Bulwer-Lytton's 1862 occult novel deepens the duel between the scientific Dr. Fenwick and the deathless, amoral Margrave, as mesmerism and metaphysics erode the doctor's materialist certainties. A major Victorian work of the weird from the author of 'The Coming Race.' Read it for classic nineteenth-century occult fiction where reason and the supernatural contend for a man's soul.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 10 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).