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Figures in Blue is the story of Esteban Espiritu, a young Spanish
artist who is commissioned to paint the portrait of Kristena von
Lichtenberg, an elderly Baroness living in a deteriorating mansion
that overlooks a provincial German village. However, Esteban
uncovers a local mystery regarding the disappearance of her brutish
husband, the Baron. The novelette is set in the beginning of the
twentieth century and references classical mythology.
Hektr Pastrovich, a journalist and poet, travels to the front of a
war his country has been fighting for nine years in search of an
enigmatic traveler who calls himself the Prince of Ithaka. Along
the way he meets Helena, a beautiful and captivating woman who
becomes a mystery to Hektr as well. Men of Winter is a revisionist
work drawing from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, set in early
twentieth-Century Russia. It features a Preface by the author, in
addition to an Interview, Afterword and Discussion Questions that
make it ideal for book clubs and classroom study.
In the novel An Untimely Frost, or The Authoress, set in 1830s
London, American author Jefferson Wheelwright seeks out the
reclusive English novelist Margaret T. Haeley, creator of
Dunkelraum's monster and widow of the poet Stephen Haeley. The
story is inspired by Washington Irving's rumored courtship of Mary
Shelley, author of Frankenstein. The book also includes the
author's essay "Researching the Rhythms of Voice" and discussion
questions.
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