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The Last Days of Pompeii by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton (Author)

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  • Resource Type: Web Site
  • Chapters: 56
  • Suggested Grade Level: 10th - 12th
  • Geographical Setting: Ancient Rome
  • Historical Setting: 79 - 79
  • Subjects: History
  • Edition: Online version
  • Written: 1834
  • URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1565
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Chapter Details
  • 1:1 — The Two Gentlemen of Pompeii
  • 1:2 — The Blind Flower-Girl and the Beauty of Fashion
  • 1:3 — Parentage of Glaucus
  • 1:4 — The Temple of Isis
  • 1:5 — More of the Flower-Girl
  • 1:6 — The Fowler Snares Again the Bird That Had Just Escaped
  • 1:7 — The Gay Life of the Pompeian Lounger
  • 1:8 — Arbaces Cogs His Dice with Pleasure
  • 2:1 — A Flash House in Pompeii
  • 2:2 — Two Worthies
  • 2:3 — Glaucus Makes a Purchase That Afterwards Costs Him Dear
  • 2:4 — The Rival of Glaucus Presses Onward in the Race
  • 2:5 — The Poor Tortoise
  • 2:6 — The Happy Beauty and the Blind Slave
  • 2:7 — Ione Entrapped
  • 2:8 — The Solitude and Soliloquy of the Egyptian
  • 2:9 — What Becomes of Ione in the House of Arbaces
  • 3:1 — The Forum of the Pompeians
  • 3:2 — The Noonday Excursion on the Campanian Seas
  • 3:3 — The Congregation
  • 3:4 — The Stream of Love Runs On
  • 3:5 — Nydia Encounters Julia
  • 3:6 — The Porter - The Girl - and the Gladiator
  • 3:7 — The Dressing-Room of a Pompeian Beauty
  • 3:8 — Julia Seeks Arbaces
  • 3:9 — A Storm in the South
  • 3:10 — The Lord of the Burning Belt and His Minion
  • 3:11 — Progress of Events
  • 4:1 — Reflections on the Zeal of the Early Christians
  • 4:2 — A Classic Host, Cook, and Kitchen
  • 4:3 — A Fashionable Party and a Dinner
  • 4:4 — The Story Halts for a Moment
  • 4:5 — The Philtre - Its Effect
  • 4:6 — A Reunion of Different Actors
  • 4:7 — In Which the Reader Learns the Condition of Glaucus
  • 4:8 — A Classic Funeral
  • 4:9 — In Which an Adventure Happens to Ione
  • 4:10 — What Becomes of Nydia in the House of Arbaces
  • 4:11 — Nydia Affects the Sorceress
  • 4:12 — A Wasp Ventures into the Spider's Web
  • 4:13 — The Slave Consults the Oracle
  • 4:14 — Nydia Accosts Calenus
  • 4:15 — Arbaces and Ione
  • 4:16 — The Sorrow of Boon Companions for Our Afflictions
  • 4:17 — A Chance for Glaucus
  • 5:1 — The Dream of Arbaces
  • 5:2 — The Amphitheatre
  • 5:3 — Sallust and Nydia's Letter
  • 5:4 — The Amphitheatre Once More
  • 5:5 — The Cell of the Prisoner
  • 5:6 — Calenus and Burbo
  • 5:7 — The Progress of the Destruction
  • 5:8 — Arbaces Encounters Glaucus and Ione
  • 5:9 — The Despair of the Lovers
  • 5:10 — The Next Morning
  • 5:11 — Wherein All Things Cease