A Strange Story

About this book

A physician who trusts only science meets Margrave, a beautiful and disturbing stranger who seems untouched by the limits of ordinary life. Soon questions of immortality and hidden influence threaten everything the doctor believes about the mind and soul.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton builds a tense conflict between medical reason, love and occult possibility. Mysterious experiments and the search for life-extending powers lead the narrator toward dangers he cannot dismiss as superstition. Beneath the supernatural plot lies a persistent question: if another person could command the forces behind life itself, what would remain of human freedom?