A Strange Story - Complete (Annotated)

A Strange Story — Complete is Bulwer-Lytton's ambitious Victorian romance of science, mesmerism, and supernatural dread. Narrated by the rational physician Allen Fenwick, the novel stages a conflict between empirical medicine and occult possibility through the sinister figure of Margrave and the fragile, visionary Lilian Ashleigh. Its prose is ornate, speculative, and intensely rhetorical, placing...