Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton ~9 hr read

In the turbulent years of the French Revolution, the ageless Rosicrucian adept Zanoni, master of forbidden wisdom and immortal life, risks everything for the love of a mortal woman.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1842 novel is a landmark of Rosicrucian and occult fantasy. Lush, philosophical, immensely influential. Read it for one of the great esoteric romances, a deathless magician torn between transcendent power and human love against the backdrop of the Terror, a hugely influential work of occult fiction that shaped Theosophy and generations of mystical fantasy.

In its time

Published in 1842, during the 1840s, mystery, mesmerism, and the proto-scientific tale in the age of poe and gautier.

Reading it

~9 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).