{"product_id":"2940013132832","title":"Vril, The Power of the Coming Race","description":"Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and prolific novelist. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases \"the great unwashed,\" \"pursuit of the almighty dollar,” \"the pen is mightier than the sword,\" and the famous opening line \"It was a dark and stormy night.\" Bulwer-Lytton's literary career began in 1820 - with the publication of a book of poems - and spanned much of the nineteenth century. He wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult, and science fiction. He financed his extravagant life with a varied and prolific literary output, sometimes publishing anonymously Against his wishes, Bulwer-Lytton was honoured with a burial in Westminster Abbey, and his unfinished history Athens: Its Rise and Fall was published posthumously.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVril is a substance described in Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel The Coming Race, which was later reprinted as Vril: The Power of the Coming Race. The novel is an early example of science fiction. However, many early readers believed that its account of a superior subterranean master race and the energy-form called \"Vril\" was accurate, to the extent that some theosophists accepted the book as truth. Furthermore, since 1960 there has been a conspiracy theory about a secret Vril Society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition is specially formatted with a Table of Contents.","brand":"Charles River Editors","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121021698288,"sku":"2940013132832","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013132832_p0.jpg?v=1763576813","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013132832","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}