Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton ~5 hr read

Gertrude and Trevylyan journey up the Rhine, and along the way a garland of fairy tales and legends unfolds, framed by a tender and melancholy romance.

Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 book weaves imaginative fairy tales into a sentimental Rhine-journey romance. Lyrical, wistful, of its era. Read it for a graceful Romantic-era blend of travelogue, love story, and fantasy, where the legends of the German river are spun into a lovely and melancholy tapestry by a master of the popular novel.

In its time

Published in 1834, during the 1830s, poe and the german romantics.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).