What Will He Do with It:

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC, was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. 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», «dweller on the threshold», as well as the well-known opening line «It was a dark and stormy night».