Matters Belletristic
If you’ve ever used “the almighty dollar”, “the pen is mightier than the sword”, “the great unwashed” or “it was a dark and stormy night”, you’ve quoted Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the 1st Baron Lytton, a popular Victorian novelist.
His name is now attached to a long-running competition for the worst possible opening sentence in a novel.
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