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The Last Days of Pompeii

by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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  1. 1Book the First
  2. 2Chapter II — The Blind Flower-Girl, and the Beauty of Fashion. The…
  3. 3Chapter III — Parentage of Glaucus. Description of the Houses of Po…
  4. 4Chapter IV — The Temple of Isis. Its Priest. The Character of Arbac…
  5. 5Chapter V — More of the Flower-Girl. The Progress of Love
  6. 6Chapter VI — The Fowler Snares Again the Bird That Had Just Escaped…
  7. 7Chapter VII — The Gay Life of the Pompeian Lounger. A Miniature Lik…
  8. 8Chapter VIII — Arbaces Cogs His Dice With Pleasure and Wins the Game
  9. 9Book the Second
  10. 10Chapter II — Two Worthies
  11. 11Chapter III — Glaucus Makes a Purchase That Afterwards Costs Him Dear
  12. 12Chapter IV — The Rival of Glaucus Presses Onward in the Race
  13. 13Chapter V — The Poor Tortoise. New Changes for Nydia
  14. 14Chapter VI — The Happy Beauty and the Blind Slave
  15. 15Chapter VII — Ione Entrapped. The Mouse Tries to Gnaw the Net
  16. 16Chapter VIII — The Solitude and Soliloquy of the Egyptian. His Char…
  17. 17Chapter IX — What Becomes of Ione in the House of Arbaces. The Firs…
  18. 18Book the Third
  19. 19Chapter II — The Noonday Excursion on the Campanian Seas
  20. 20Chapter III — The Congregation
  21. 21Chapter IV — The Stream of Love Runs on. Whither?
  22. 22Chapter V — Nydia Encounters Julia. Interview of the Heathen Sister…
  23. 23Chapter VI — The Porter. The Girl. And the Gladiator
  24. 24Chapter VII — The Dressing-Room of a Pompeian Beauty. Important Con…
  25. 25Chapter VIII — Julia Seeks Arbaces. The Result of That Interview
  26. 26Chapter IX — Storm in the South. The Witch’s Cavern
  27. 27Chapter X — The Lord of the Burning Belt and His Minion. Fate Write…
  28. 28Chapter XI — Progress of Events. The Plot Thickens. The Web Is Wove…
  29. 29Book the Fourth
  30. 30Chapter II — A Classic Host, Cook, and Kitchen. Apaecides Seeks Ion…
  31. 31Chapter III — A Fashionable Party and a Dinner à la Mode in Pompeii
  32. 32Chapter IV — The Story Halts for a Moment at an Episode
  33. 33Chapter V — The Philtre. Its Effect
  34. 34Chapter VI — A Reunion of Different Actors. Streams That Flowed App…
  35. 35Chapter VII — In Which the Reader Learns the Condition of Glaucus.…
  36. 36Chapter VIII — A Classic Funeral
  37. 37Chapter IX — In Which an Adventure Happens to Ione
  38. 38Chapter X — What Becomes of Nydia in the House of Arbaces. The Egyp…
  39. 39Chapter XI — Nydia Affects the Sorceress
  40. 40Chapter XII — A Wasp Ventures Into the Spider’s Web
  41. 41Chapter XIII — The Slave Consults the Oracle…
  42. 42Chapter XIV — Nydia Accosts Calenus
  43. 43Chapter XV — Arbaces and Ione. Nydia Gains the Garden. Will She Esc…
  44. 44Chapter XVI — The Sorrow of Boon Companions for Our Afflictions. Th…
  45. 45Chapter XVII — A Chance for Glaucus
  46. 46Book the Fifth
  47. 47Chapter II — The Amphitheatre
  48. 48Chapter III — Sallust and Nydia’s Letter
  49. 49Chapter IV — The Amphitheatre Once More
  50. 50Chapter V — The Cell of the Prisoner and the den of the Dead. Grief…
  51. 51Chapter VI — Calenus and Burbo. Diomed and Clodius. The Girl of the…
  52. 52Chapter VII — The Progress of the Destruction
  53. 53Chapter VIII — Arbaces Encounters Glaucus and Ione
  54. 54Chapter IX — The Despair of the Lovers. The Condition of the Multitude
  55. 55Chapter X — The Next Morning. The Fate of Nydia
  56. 56Chapter The Last — Wherein All Things Cease Letter From Glaucus to…

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