Zanoni, Volume I

About this book

A mysterious stranger appears to possess powers and knowledge that ordinary people can barely imagine. Those who come near him discover that immortality may demand a terrible price.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni begins a Gothic and philosophical romance in which love, initiation and the mysteries of the Rosicrucians become intertwined. Volume I develops the temptations and divided loyalties from which the novel's larger conflict grows. Its atmosphere owes as much to the occult fascination of the nineteenth century as to the grand dramas of Romantic fiction.