“Bulwer's fantasy novel The Coming Race was published in 1872 a few months before the author's death under the pseudonym Laurence Oliphant. English criticism, not suspecting that a famous, old writer was hiding behind this name, welcomed the appearance of a new literary luminary.Although this book, following its appearance, was published in translation in one of our periodicals of translated novels , but, with the exception of a certain circle of lovers of this kind of reading, it is unlikely that it is familiar to the majority of the reading public.The coming race is written with extremely talented, elegant language, with subtle irony over the shortcomings of our social structure and touches on those burning and eternally new questions that form the basis of all the various teachings - about achieving universal happiness on earth.In the words of Bulwer himself, taken from the same book, "he who reads an old book will always find something new in it, and – something old“…”