# Lucretia — Volume 04

Author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873

Genre: Category: Romance

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7688

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Lucretia+Lytton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The 8th of September, 1831, was a holiday in London. William the Fourth received the crown of his ancestors in that mighty church in which the most impressive monitors to human pomp are the monuments of the dead. The dust of conquerors and statesmen, of the wise heads and the bold hands that had guarded the thrones of departed kings, slept around; and the great men of the Modern time were assembled in homage to the monarch to whom the prowess and the liberty of generations had bequeathed an empire in which the sun never sets. In the Abbey--thinking little of the past, caring little for the future--the immense audience gazed eagerly on the pageant that occurs but once in that division of h...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lucretia-volume-04-7688/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lucretia-volume-04-7688/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lucretia-volume-04-7688/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lucretia-volume-04-7688/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lucretia-volume-04-7688/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lucretia-volume-04-7688/chapters/5/index.md)