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.

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 character was a film noir antihero in every sense ; Gibson himself claimed the literary inspirations were Bram Stoker's Dracula and Edward Bulwer-Lytton's " The House and the Brain ".

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

" 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

* 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.

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.

Bulwer-Lytton's novel Eugene Aram creates a Romantic figure torn between violence and visionary ideals, an image that is also portrayed in W. G.

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.

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

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

Heidenstam wrote four other works of fiction about earlier figures revered in Swedish memory.

and among works of dystopian science fiction, not all provide intelligent criticism and very few have much merit as literature -- but then real quality has always been scarce in science fiction.

It can be variously seen as a sub-genre of literary fiction, science fiction, and historical fiction ; different alternate history works may use tropes from any or all of these genres.

For me it ’ s the book that does everything right, the example of what science fiction does when it works.

Typically pseudonymous, they were ( and are ) largely works of fiction written by ghostwriters.

The term may also apply to works of fiction purporting to be autobiographies of real characters, e. g., Robert Nye's Memoirs of Lord Byron.

It is unknown when dual wielding was first used in fiction, but it was likely from early western novels before spilling over into other works.

* A name used for a tank ( an armoured fighting vehicle ) in some works of speculative fiction, such as Harry Turtledove's books, and Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun.

He was romanticised after his death and became the inspiration for a number of pirate-themed works of fiction across a range of genres.

Much of the genre's atmosphere echoes film noir, and written works in the genre often use techniques from detective fiction.

Cordwainer Smith – pronounced CORDwainer – was the pseudonym used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger ( July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966 ) for his science fiction works.

Linebarger's works are sometimes included in analyses of Christianity in fiction, along with the works of authors such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R.

These features may place Smith's works within the Dying Earth subgenre of science fiction.

As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.

He was inspired by the mention of the concept in the 1937 science fiction novel Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon, and possibly by the works of J. D. Bernal and Raymond Z. Gallun who seem to have explored similar concepts in their work.

Rosa enjoys including subtle references to his favorite works of fiction as well as his own previous work.

Poe's best known fiction works are Gothic, a genre he followed to appease the public taste.

It has also played a major role in works of science fiction.

The most popular single earthquake in fiction is the hypothetical " Big One " expected of California's San Andreas Fault someday, as depicted in the novels Richter 10 ( 1996 ) and Goodbye California ( 1977 ) among other works.

Bulwer-Lyton penned many other works, including The Coming Race or Vril: The Power of the Coming Race ( 1871 ), which drew heavily on his interest in the occult and contributed to the birth of the science fiction genre.