Pausanias, the Spartan: The Haunted and the Haunters
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Pausanias, the Spartan: The Haunted and the Haunters
                                            
                            By Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
                            
                                4 Jul, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        It is fully fifteen, if not twenty, years since my father commenced the composition of a historical romance on the subject of Pausanias, the Spartan Regent. Circumstances, which need not here be recorded, compelled him to lay aside the work thus begu
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                                                It is fully fifteen, if not twenty, years since my father commenced the composition of a historical romance on the subject of Pausanias, the Spartan Regent. Circumstances, which need not here be recorded, compelled him to lay aside the work thus begun. But the subject continued to haunt his imagination and occupy his thoughts. He detected in it singular opportunities for effective exercise of the gifts most peculiar to his genius; and repeatedly, in the intervals of other literary labor, he returned to the task which, though again and again interrupted, was never abandoned....... Less