Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1 hr 20 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 carries forward the struggle between the scientific Dr. Fenwick and the beautiful, deathless Margrave, as alchemy and mesmerism press ever harder on the doctor's rationalism. A major Victorian work of the weird from the author of 'The Coming Race.' Read it for landmark occult fiction where science and sorcery duel for a man's very soul.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 20 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).