ZANONI (Annotated)

Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni is a richly symbolic romance of occult initiation, love, and spiritual peril, set against the convulsions of the French Revolution. Blending Gothic atmosphere, metaphysical speculation, and melodramatic intensity, the novel follows the immortal adept Zanoni, his fellow initiate Mejnour, and the singer Viola as human affection collides with esoteric discipline. Publish...