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The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834 The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan The novel was a fictional account of the events surrounding the eruption of Vesuvius that buried the Roman city of Pompeii in AD 79 The novel uses its characters to contrast the decadent culture of 1st-century Rome with both older cultu...Seguir leyendo