Los Últimos Días De Pompeya

Escrito por Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Narrado por Carlos Zambrano

Aunque el mensaje que Bulwer-Lytton trata de transmitir en su novela, de que la erupcion que destruyo a Pompeya en los primeros anos de nuestra era, lo merecian por tratarse de una sociedad corrupta, puede ser discutible, nadie duda de lo emocionante de este romance historico.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: YOYO USA
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 1 ene 2001
• ISBN: 9781611553307

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton was an English writer and politician.

Comentarios para Los Últimos Días De Pompeya

[john257hopper · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

This is a richly written early 19th century novel. While the setting is suitably dramatic as per the title, the actual events of the impending eruption of Vesuvius and destruction of Pompeii are very much in the background, against the central plot of the rivalry between the Egyptian priest Arbaces and the Greek Glaucus over the same woman, Ione. Another priest Apaceides (who has converted to Christianity) is murdered by Arbaces and Glaucus is framed it. About to face a hungry lion in the arena, he is only saved by the apocalypse itself. This novel is very melodramatic and theatrical to the modern reader, but I enjoyed its richness, despite some occasional overlong digressions - though even these had their poignancy when compared to the ruins found in recent times.

[pallandavid · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Not a story so much about the Pompeii volcanic event, but a love story set in Pompeii in the months leading up to the eruption and eventual destruction of Pompeii.
Long rambling soliloquys concerning religions, personal feelings, descriptions of the busy life of the times in that city.
For a modern reader, can be very boring (I merely scanned much of these passages that often ran two or more pages). The love story itself in interesting and there is great flavor of the times.
Dialogue is Shakespearean... thee, thow, dost....
I recommend based on the historic interest of the. book.

[browsers_1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Amazingly good, considering what a bad name poor Lytton has in modern times, what with the whole "dark and stormy night" thing. Very entertaining all around, very interesting perspectives on religion considering the times. This edition has excellent plate engravings which add a lot to the story.

[ari4joki · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

Wordy, broadly descriptive prose was fashionable once in the world. Even for that time, Bulwer-Lytton in this work is exessive. He does carry the plot pretty well, though.

[schmerguls · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

904 The Last Days of Pompeii, by Sir Edward G. E. Bulwer-Lytton (read 4 Jul 1967) When I finished this I said "though the description is so overdone, and the plot rather creaking, I was caught up by both: description and story. Glaucus, an Athenian in Pompeii, loves Ione, as does Arbaces, an Egyptian of evil. Nydia, a blind slave, also loves Glaucus. Arbaces kills Apaecides, brother of Ione, who has become a Christian, and then blames the killing on Glaucus who had been temporarily crazed by a supposed love potion given him by Nydia--after Nydia took it from Julia, who had gotten it from a witch at Arbaces' urging. Glaucus is to be devoured by a lion on the day Vesuvius erupts." To illustrate the fulsome style: "The eyes of the crowd followed the gesture of the Egyptian, and beheld, with ineffable dismay, a vast vapour shooting from the summit of Vesuvius, in the form of a gigantic pine-tree, the trunk, blackness,--the branches, fire!--and a fire that shifted and wavered in its hues with every moment, now fiercely luminous, now of a dull and dying red, that again blazed terrifically forth with intolerable glare!" I will not soon forget this awesome book!

[pferdina · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

A romance with a classical setting, this is (sort of) the story of two expatriate Greeks who discover each other while living in Pompeii. It is also the story of how Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of the volcano, Vesuvius. Daily life of the residents is described-from banquets to baths-as well as some of the religious aspects of life in this time period (first century CE). Apparently the author based his book on the excavations of Pompeii, because he frequently mentions that you can see there the houses and other objects which appear in the story. It is a slow-moving tale, with many side trips, but some readers will forgive all when the bad guys get what they deserve and the good guys live happily ever after.