A Strange Story - Complete (Annotated)

Edward Bulwer-Lytton's *A Strange Story* (1862) is a substantial Victorian Gothic novel in which scientific rationalism confronts spiritual mystery. Its protagonist, the physician Allen Fenwick, finds his confidence in empirical knowledge unsettled by encounters involving the enigmatic Margrave, the vulnerable Lilian Ashleigh, mesmerism, apparitions, and occult forces. The narrative moves between ...