The most popular novel of the English writer Edward Bulver Litton, written under the impression of the famous picture of Karl Bryullov “The Last Day of Pompeii” and from a trip to this ancient dead city. The interweaving of fate and events: the love of the Athenian young man, the headquarters and Greek, Iona, the story of the blind slave of Nidia, the vengeful Supreme Priest of Arbak, a series of mysterious murders and a terrible catastrophe, which buried the most beautiful city, is exciting reading from the classic.
A beautiful and tragic story was repeatedly filmed, in 2014 a new film is released.
Author
Bulver Litton Eduard George
Translator
Hinkis Viktor Alexandrovich
Publisher
Eksmo, 2014
Series
Foreign classic
16+
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