Ernest Maltravers (Annotated)

Ernest Maltravers traces the education of a gifted, restless young aristocrat as he moves through passion, travel, authorship, political ambition, and moral disillusionment. First published in 1837, the novel belongs to Bulwer-Lytton's ambitious philosophical romances, poised between the fashionable "silver-fork" novel, the Bildungsroman, and early Victorian social fiction. Its ornate, reflective ...