" Johnston took the-vril suffix from Bulwer-Lytton's then-popular " lost race " novel The Coming Race ( 1870 ), whose plot revolves around a superior race of people, the Vril-ya, who derive their powers from an electromagnetic substance named " Vril.

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Several of Bulwer-Lytton's novels were made into operas, one of which, Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen ( 1842 ) by Richard Wagner, eventually became more famous than the novel.

The famous opening line of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel, Paul Clifford, published this year, begins:

Besides Shakespeare, he also translated a number of other works from English into Japanese, including Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor and Bulwer-Lytton's novel Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes.

Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen ( WWV 49 ) ( Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes ) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name ( 1835 ).

* When they begin researching the book on which the planet's scene is based, Picard reads the book's opening sentence, " It was a dark and stormy night "— the famous opening of Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's novel Paul Clifford — and remarks, " Not a promising beginning.

This story also uses elements of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel Vril.

The Robotech definition of Protoculture is similar in some respects to the Vril energy described in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel The Coming Race, a substance used by a subterranean humanoid species of Earth called the Vril-ya ; in Trevor Ravenscroft's book about the occult practices within the Nazi inner circle, Spear of Destiny, it is stated that the process of deriving Vril energy was discovered by Atlanteans, which involved " extracting life-power from seeds "; German rocket engineer Willy Ley alludes to the Nazi occult fascination with Vril energy in his 1947 article, " Pseudoscience in Naziland ", linking the Vril-ya to the Aryan race and Nazism.

* Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel The Coming Race was an account of the Vril-ya, an angelic subterranean master race.

His next large-scale work was Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii ( 1853 – 54 ), based on a character in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's best-selling novel, The Last Days of Pompeii.

Among Bulwer-Lytton's lesser-known contributions to literature is the fact that it was he who convinced Charles Dickens to revise the ending of Great Expectations to make it more palatable to the reading public.

Bulwer-Lytton's most famous quotation, " the pen is mightier than the sword ", is from his play Richelieu where it appears in the line beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword

Leonora ( 1846 ) by William Henry Fry, the first European-styled " grand " opera composed in the United States of America, is based on Bulwer-Lytton's play The Lady of Lyons, as is Frederic Cowen's first opera Pauline ( 1876 ).

The town is located in the fertile Ione Valley, which is believed to be named by Thomas Brown around 1849 after one of the heroines in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's drama The Last Days of Pompeii.

There is a very interesting permanent exhibition in Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, dedicated to Robert Bulwer-Lytton's diplomatic service in India.

The death of Bulwer-Lytton's mother in 1843, greatly saddened him.

Bulwer-Lytton's literary career began in 1820-with the publication of a book of poems-and spanned much of the nineteenth century.

Verdi rival Errico Petrella's most successful opera, Jone ( 1858 ), was based upon Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii, and was performed all over the world until the First World War.

Bulwer-Lytton's works of fiction and non-fiction were translated in his day and since then into many languages, including Serbian ( by Laza Kostic ), German, Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Finnish, and Spanish.

She has an important role in Bulwer-Lytton's The Last of the Barons 1843.

He acted in London in 1867, 1882, 1883 and 1884, his " Cardinal Richelieu " portrayal in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's drama being considered his best part.

In 1879 the house was taken over by the Bancrofts, who re-opened the theatre with a revival of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Money, followed by Victorien Sardou's Odette ( for which they engaged Madame Helena Modjeska ) and Fedora, and Arthur Wing Pinero's Lords and Commons, with other revivals of previous successes.

In 1838 she made her first great success as Nydia, the blind girl, in a dramatized version of Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii, and followed this with an equally striking impersonation of Smike in Nicholas Nickleby.

He played a number of other characters on screen, including Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Glaucus of Pompeii ; Goliath, the bane of the barbarians ( actually called " Emiliano " in the Italian version ); Tatar hero Hadji Murad ; Romulus, the legendary founder of Rome ( opposite Gordon Scott as his twin brother Remus ); Pheidippides, the famous war-time messenger of the Battle of Marathon ; pirate and self-proclaimed governor of Jamaica, Captain Henry Morgan ; and Karim, the fabled Thief of Baghdad.

The Witch of Vesuvius, though she has no supernatural powers, shows Bulwer-Lytton's interest in the occult-a theme which would emerge in his later writing, particularly The Coming Race.

* The 1935 serial The Phantom Empire combines a western musical with subterranean plot elements loosely adapted from Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race.

During most of the 19th-century in fact, the term " tennis " referred to real tennis, not lawn tennis: for example, in Disraeli's novel Sybil ( 1845 ), Lord Eugene De Vere announces that he will " go down to Hampton Court and play tennis.

" According to a 29 May 1897 diary entry written by her father's distant cousin, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, she was given the name " Tatiana " as an homage to the heroine in Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin.

A play, written by Miller and Robert Rossen based on the novel, was first shown in Philadelphia and then twice at Broadway's Eugene O ' Neill Theatre on February 22 and 23, 1960, featuring Raymond St. Jacques, James Earl Jones, Calvin Lockhart, Hilda Simms, and others.

His best-known work is a novel in verse, Eugene Onegin.

Fail-Safe is a 1964 film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel Fail-Safe written by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler.

" with all due allowance for its somewhat limited range of subject, Son Excellence Eugene Rougon is the one existing French novel which gives the reader a fair general idea of what occurred in political spheres at an important period of the Empire.

Following Eugene Rougon's rise to political power in Paris in La Fortune, his younger brother Aristide, featured in the first novel as a talentless journalist, a comic character unable to commit himself unequivocally to the imperial cause and thus left out in the cold when the rewards were being handed out, decides to follow Eugene to Paris to help himself to the wealth and power he now believes to be his birthright.

Eugene Onegin (, BGN / PCGN: Yevgeniy Onegin ) is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin.

* In 1911, the first screen version of the novel was filmed: the Russian silent film " Yevgeni Onegin " (" Eugene Onegin "), directed by Vasili Goncharov and starring Arseniy Bibikov, Petr Birjukov and Pyotr Chardynin.

* In 1958 Lenfilm produced a TV film " Eugene Onegin ", which was, actually, not a screen version of the novel, but a screen version of the opera " Eugene Onegin " by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

* Aleksandr Pushkin, London 1964, Princeton 1975, Eugene Onegin a novel in verse.

* Alexander Pushkin, Penguin 1979 Eugene Onegin a novel in verse.

Plath was writing the novel under the sponsorship of the Eugene F. Saxton Fellowship, affiliated with publisher Harper & Row, but they were disappointed by the manuscript and withdrew, calling it, “ disappointing, juvenile, and overwrought .” Early working titles of the novel included Diary of a Suicide and The Girl in the Mirror.

* In the 20th and 21st centuries, liberal Reform and Reconstructionist rabbis have fostered novel approaches to Jewish ethics, for example in the writings of Eugene Borowitz.

More likely is that he was the inspiration for the character Colonel Hillandale in Eugene Burdick's novel The Ugly American published in 1958.

This was followed by Eugene O ' Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, Luigi Chiarelli's The Mask and the Face, with Humphrey Bogart, and Zoe Akins ' The Old Maid from the novel by Edith Wharton, in the role later played on film by Miriam Hopkins.

The first stages of Pushkin's poetic novel Eugene Onegin appeared twelve years after Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and Byron was of obvious influence ( Vladimir Nabokov argued in his Commentary to Eugene Onegin that Pushkin had read Byron during his years in exile just prior to composing Eugene Onegin ).

* Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse written by Aleksandr Pushkin

Some more modern examples are Lemony Snicket, James Eugene Robinson in his novel, The Flower of Grass, and Philip Pullman.

In May 1877, the opera singer Yelizaveta Lavrovskaya spoke to Tchaikovsky about creating an opera based on the plot of Pushkin's verse novel Eugene Onegin.