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Presents a critical narrative concerning American-born author and literary critic Henry James, his experiences in Paris in 1875, and his association with a select circle of writers.

Former child prodigy Benjamin Ziskind, pushed by his twin sister Sara into attending a singles' cocktail hour at a Jewish art museum, steals a Marc Chagall painting that once hung in his home, and begins investigating the provenance of the work in an effort to learn how it came to the museum, while urging Sara, an artist, to create a forgery to take its place.

Presents an examination of H. P. Lovecraft's impact on twentieth century popular culture, providing an analysis of his complete writings, and including an annotated bibliography.

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of an elite group of literary geniuses secretly working on America's first translation of "The Divine Comedy" in 1865, puts his career on the line when he teams up with outcast police officer Nicholas Rey in an attempt to find a killer who is patterning his crimes on descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's "Inferno.".

Five women and one man in California's Central Valley begin a six-month series of romantic entanglements after forming a Jane Austen book discussion club.

Art history professor Suzanne Nelson retreats into her research as a way to escape her failing marriage, but she soon finds her obsession with a mysterious painter overtaking her life.

Charts Mozart's evolution from forgotten composer to "a youth beloved of gods", and examines how he was defined by the Romantics, sanitized by the Victorians, and commercialized in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Explores the impact that Karen Levine's biography of Hana Brady, a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, has had on children across the world.

Describes Jane Austen's era, her major works, her life, and the legacy of her writing.