Trilby (Annotated)

First serialized in 1894, George du Maurier's Trilby is a fin-de-siècle sensation set amid the bohemian studios of Paris's Latin Quarter. The novel follows the enchanting artist's model Trilby O'Ferrall, whose transformation into a celebrated singer under the mesmeric control of Svengali fuses social comedy, melodrama, Gothic suggestion, and satire of artistic life. Du Maurier's prose is pictorial...