"In 1850s London, the Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and, among the crowd watching the dazzling spectacle, two people meet by happenstance. For Iris, an arrestingly attractive aspiring artist, it is a brief and forgettable moment but for Silas, a curiosity collector enchanted by all things strange and beautiful, the meeting marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition...

Presents literary criticism on the works of nineteenth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Criticism includes early views from the author's lifetime as well as later views, including extensive collections of contemporary analysis.

"La embriagadora historia de una joven que aspira a convertirse en artista y del hombre que, obsesionado con ella, amenaza con destruir su mundo para siempre. Londres, 1850. La hermosa Iris trabaja, junto a su hermana, como aprendiz en el famoso taller de muñecas de la déspota señora Salter, pero su pasión es el arte. Cuando el pintor Louis Frost le pide que pose para él como modelo, ante ella se abre un mundo nuevo en el que, quizás,...