Eugene Aram

The Case of a Learned Man at Lynn

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486457067
• Topic: Littérature
• Subtopic: Classiques

A scholar of the highest reputation in a quiet town is arrested for a murder committed fourteen years before, and the case against him is built out of his own past. Bulwer-Lytton took the outline from a real trial of 1759 and made the murderer a philosopher, which scandalised readers who wanted their criminals stupid. The examination scene is the ancestor of every courtroom novel in English. Fifty-six plates, from Rembrandt to John Atkinson Grimshaw, follow the story in portraits of scholars, old men and northern streets, the world that surrounds a quiet man accused.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Preface to the Edition of 1831
• Preface to the Edition of 1840
• Preface to the Present Edition
• Chapter I. The Village.—Its Inhabitants.—An Old Manorhouse: and an English Family; Their History, Involving a Mysterious Event.
• Chapter II. A Publican, a Sinner, and a Stranger
• Chapter III. A Dialogue and an Alarm.—A Student’s House.
• Chapter IV. The Soliloquy, and the Character, of a Recluse.—The Interruption.
• Chapter V. A DINNER AT THE SQUIRE’S HALL.—A CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO
• Chapter VI. The Behavior of the Student.—A Summer Scene—Aram’s Conversation with Walter, and Subsequent Colloquy with Himself.
• Chapter VII. THE POWER OF LOVE OVER THE RESOLUTION OF THE STUDENT.—ARAM
• Chapter VIII. The Privilege of Genius.—Lester’s Satisfaction at the Aspect of Events.—His Conversation with Walter.—A Discovery.
• Chapter IX. The State of Walter’s Mind.—An Angler and a Man of the World.—A Companion Found for Walter.
• Chapter X. The Lovers.—The Encounter and Quarrel of the Rivals.
• Chapter XI. THE FAMILY SUPPER.—THE TWO SISTERS IN THEIR CHAMBER.
• Chapter XII. A STRANGE HABIT.—WALTER’S INTERVIEW WITH MADELINE.—HER
• Chapter I. The Marriage Settled.—Lester’s Hopes and Schemes.—Gaiety of Temper a Good Speculation.—The Truth and Fervor of Aram’s Love.
• Chapter I
• Chapter II. A Favorable Specimen of a Nobleman and a Courtier.—A Man of Some Faults and Many Accomplishments.
• Chapter III. Wherein the Earl and the Student Converse on Grave but Delightful Matters.—The Student’s Notion of the Only Earthly Happiness.
• Chapter IV. A Deeper Examination into the Student’s Heart.—The Visit to the Castle.—Philosophy Put to the Trial.
• Chapter V. In Which the Story Returns to Walter and the Corporal.—The Rencontre with a Stranger, and How the Stranger Proves to Be Not Altogether a Stranger.
• Chapter VI. SIR PETER DISPLAYED.—ONE MAN OF THE WORLD SUFFERS FROM
• Chapter VII
• Chapter VIII. WALTER’S MEDITATIONS.—THE CORPORAL’S GRIEF AND ANGER.—THE
• Chapter I. Fraud and Violence Enter Even Grassdale.—Peter’s News. —The Lovers’ Walk.—The Reappearance.
• Chapter II. The Interview Between Aram and the Stranger.
• Chapter III. FRESH ALARM IN THE VILLAGE.—LESTER’S VISIT TO ARAM.—A TRAIT
• Chapter IV. Military Preparations.—The Commander and His Man.—Aram is Persuaded to Pass the Night at the Manor-House.
• Chapter V. The Sisters Alone.—The Gossip of Love.—An Alarm —And an Event.
• Chapter VI. Aram Alone Among the Mountains.—His Soliloquy and Project.— Scene Between Himself and Madeline.
• Chapter VII. ARAM’S SECRET EXPEDITION.—A SCENE WORTHY THE ACTORS.—ARAM’S
• Chapter I. In Which We Return to Walter.—His Debt of Gratitude to Mr. Pertinax Fillgrave.—The Corporal’s Advice, and the Corporal’s Victory.
• Chapter I
• Chapter II. NEW TRACES OF THE FATE OF GEOFFREY LESTER.—WALTER AND THE
• Chapter III. A Scholar, but of a Different Mold from the Student of Grassdale.—New Particulars Concerning Geoffrey Lester.—The Journey Recommenced.
• Chapter IV. ARAM’S DEPARTURE.—MADELINE.—EXAGGERATION OF SENTIMENT
• Chapter V. A REFLECTION NEW AND STRANGE.—THE STREETS OF LONDON.—A GREAT
• Chapter VI. The Thames at Night.—A Thought.—The Student Re-Seeks the Ruffian.—A Human Feeling Even in the Worst Soil.
• Chapter VII. Madeline, Her Hopes.—A Mild Autumn Characterized. —A Landscape.—A Return.
• Chapter VIII. Affection: Its Godlike Nature.—The Conversation Between Aram and Madeline.—The Fatalist Forgets Fate.
• Chapter IX. WALTER AND THE CORPORAL ON THE ROAD.—THE EVENING SETS IN.—
• Chapter X. WALTER’S REFLECTIONS.—MINE HOST.—A GENTLE CHARACTER AND A
• Chapter XI. Grief in a Ruffian.—The Chamber of Early Death.—A Homely Yet Momentous Confession.—The Earth’s Secrets.—The Cavern.—The Accusation.
• Chapter I. Grassdale.—The Morning of the Marriage.—The Crones Gossip.—The Bride at Her Toilet.—The Arrival.
• Chapter I
• Chapter II. The Student Alone in His Chamber.—The Interruption.—Faithful Love.
• Chapter III. THE JUSTICE—THE DEPARTURE—THE EQUANIMITY OF THE CORPORAL IN
• Chapter IV. The Evening Before the Trial.—The Cousins.—The Change in Madeline.—The Family of Grassdale Meet Once More Beneath One Roof.
• Chapter V. The Trial.
• Chapter VI. The Death.—The Prison.—An Interview.—Its Result.
• Chapter VII. The Confession.—And the Fate.
• Chapter VIII
• About the Author