Trilby
READING AGE 16+
Svengali, a rogue, masterful musician and hypnotist seduces, dominates and exploits Trilby, a young Irish girl. Svengali promises and makes Trilby a famous singer in Paris. It was popularly believed that the hypnotic control Svengali has over Trilby was modelled after the relationship between the French harpist and composer Nicolas-Charles Bochsa and the English operatic soprano Anna Bishop.
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He pulled her watch out of his waistcoat-pocket and reverently kissed it, exclaiming: «Ah! c’était un ange! un ange du Paradis! when I tell you I lived with them for five years! Oh! her kindness, Dio, dio Maria! It was ‹Gecko this!’ and ‹Gecko that!’ and ‹Poor Gecko, your toothache, how it worries me!’ and ‹Gecko, how tired and pale you look—you……
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