Lucile Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Lytton 9781141231140 Books
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Lucile Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Lytton 9781141231140 Books Reviews
This is a strange book - it is a very long narrative poem, some of which is based on "Lavina" by George Sand. It is a familiar love story - falling in love and losing love has been told in tales forever. But not in poetry such as this. It's an interesting read, just to see how the writer manages to make a poem of this length flow together into a story.
I recommend it highly.
I have an illustrated version with the pages 'gold edged' (lack of a better term) with Lucille's caricature on the upper corners with butterflies, flowers, and so forth up and down the sides of each page with the copyrights 1883 and 1885. Very old. I've owned it for twenty years. Yes, the story is a bit 'unique' but it's a great story with redeeming moral qualities of a time, and people long gone (unfortunately). My book is in great condition, and it looks good in my library!
THE STORY The noble, handsome, wealthy Lord Alfred Vargrave opens a letter from the noble, beauteous, wealthy Lucille, Comtesse De Nevers. She writes
"Your last words recorded a pledge---what you will--
A promise---the time is now come to fulfil.
The letters I ask you, my lord, to return,
I desire to receive from your own hand. You discern
My reasons, which therefore, I need not explain."
When they were 18 years old, the young French noblewoman and the young English lord met in Paris. They fell in love. They quarreled, The engagement was dissolved, yet each kept the other's letters, to be returned on request.
Some years passed. The Comtesse is in gorgeous bloom, the toast of France, admired by many yet none more so than the noble, handsome, wealthy gallant Duke Eugene Luvois. Obsessed with Lucille, he lives for her smile, begs her to marry him.
Meanwhile, Lord Alfred has risen to eminence, and is engaged to the lovely Matilda. Their party/entourage are in Bigorre with Lord Alfred. Hastening to obey the Comtesse, Lord Alfred persuades his cousin, John, to make plausible excuses for his absence from Matilda's side so he can go to Luchon, where Lucille is staying. While crossing a perilous mountain, Lord Alfred meets the Duke, with whom he feels a warm companionship. Side by side, they descend to the valley. A great ball that night prevents Lucille from seeing Alfred at once.
What happens next and next and next would have romance novel readers enthralled. Lucille & Alfred clearly remain powerfully attracted to each other. The Duke disovers them in circumstances that could be considered compromising and overhears the feelings that have kept Lucille from accepting his hand. There are betrayals, remorse, counter-betrayals, more remorse, misunderstandings, made all the more poignant because Matilda, Lord Alfred, the Duke, and Comtesse Lucille want to behave well. They are torn between their principles and their emotions which eventually for the Duke, include a vengance that almost destroys young Matilda.
The ending, about 300 pages of poetry later, is unexpected, yet feels almost inevitable. It is more-than-dramatic, and involves the Duke's hatred of Lord Alfred, the niece who is his happiness in life, Lord Alfred's only child, and....Soeur Seraphine.
BACKSTORY The author, Owen Meredith, is the pen name of Lord Robert Bulwer-Lytton who in addition to prolix writing, had a distinguished public service career and a passionate marriage.. He even served himself in regal state as the Viceroy of India. Lord Robert Bulwer-Lytton was the only son of the first Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, also a Viceroy of India and an author----in prose, of "The Last Days of Pompeii."
"Lucille" was published in 1860 when stories in poetry such as "Song of Hiawatha" were much esteemed, as were novels in prose. By 1910, there were over 100 different editions of "Lucille." It was a reading sensation in its time. If a reviewer may speculate, "Lucille" might be better known today had Owen Meredith used prose rather than thousands of couplets such as the example given above.
CURRENT INTEREST & READER ALERTS The story is still intriguing and the characterizations well developed. However, I personally find page after page of couplets marching on in the same metre not a favorite writing style. It's OK for me but I do not exactly like "Lucille." Other readers may find the book of greater interest partly for the story, partly for aficiandos of Victorian verse, and partly for historical interest---what WERE they reading so avidly 160 years ago, like a mid- 19th century "Fifty Shades of Gray?"
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