Falkland (Annotated)

Falkland is an early work of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a compact novel of sensibility, confession, and aristocratic disillusion. Cast in a melodramatic yet psychologically attentive mode, it explores passionate attachment, remorse, honor, and the self-dramatizing temperament of its hero. Its style belongs to the late Romantic moment: elevated, introspective, and rhetorically rich, indebted to Byron an...