• English Literature
• Novels

• Type: Novel
• Length: 266 pages

Bohemia, Hypnotism and Fame

Trilby is an English novel by illustrator and writer George du Maurier. Published in 1894, it was one of the great publishing sensations of the Victorian era, selling hundreds of thousands of copies and inspiring a cultural craze known as "Trilby-Mania." Set in the bohemian artistic world of 1850s Paris, the novel follows the fortunes of Trilby O'Ferrall, an artist's model whose life becomes entangled with the musician and hypnotist Svengali. The book helped shape popular ideas of artistic bohemia, generated numerous stage and film adaptations, and even gave its name to the trilby hat, which was derived from a theatrical adaptation of the story. - AsNotedIn

IT was a fine, sunny, showery day in April.
The big studio window was open at the top, and let in a pleasant breeze from the northwest. Things were beginning to look shipshape at last. The big piano, a semi-grand by Broadwood, had arrived from England by "the Little Quickness" (la Petite Vitesse, as the goods trains are called in France), and lay, freshly tuned, alongside the eastern wall; on the wall opposite was a panoply of foils, masks, and boxing-gloves.

• Theme Group: Literary Paris

Places

• 5th Lt, Pantheon, His almost girlish purity of mind amused and charmed them, and they did all they could to preserve it, even in the quartier latin, where purity is apt to go bad if it be kept too long.
• Paris, Ile-de-France Then, feeling within himself an irresistible vocation for art, he had sold out, and here he was in Paris, hard at work, as we see.

Food

• Saveloy Meat Sausage