Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1 hr 7 min read

The tale of the immortal adept Zicci deepens amid the intrigues and dangers of old Naples, as forbidden wisdom, love, and mortal peril entwine toward the story's fateful end.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1838 novella (volume two) concludes the seed of his later occult classic Zanoni. Lush, mysterious, influential. Read it for the conclusion of Bulwer-Lytton's early Rosicrucian romance, a deathless magician and the fatal cost of his commerce with the mortal world, a foundational work of the occult-fantasy tradition that he would later expand into Zanoni.

In its time

Published in 1838, during the 1830s, poe and the german romantics.

Reading it

1 hr 7 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).