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02480aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 595B937247CB11E598A1CBA4DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20230408010049 008 140825s2015 nyu 000 f eng d 020 $a 9781632860644 020 $a 1632860643 035 $a (OCoLC)889164494 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d WIM $d TOH $d CGP $d OCLCO $d UOK $d IK2 $d UIB $d SILO 050 4 $a PR6054.U477 $b S67 2015 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Duncker, Patricia, $d 1951- 245 10 $a Sophie and the Sibyl : $b a Victorian romance / $c Patricia Dunker. 250 $a First U.S. edition. 260 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury, $c 2015. 300 $a 292 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a Berlin, September 1872. The Duncker brothers, Max and Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business in the city. Clever, irresponsible Max is as fond of gambling and brothels as the older, wiser, Wolfgang is of making a profit. When Max's bad habits get out of hand, Wolfgang sends him to Homburg, to attend to a celebrity author--the enigmatic Sibyl, also known as George Eliot. Enthralling and intelligent, she soon has Max bewitched. Yet Wolfgang has an ulterior motive: he wants his brother to consider Countess Sophie von Hahn, daughter of a wealthy family friend, as a potential wife. At first, Max is lured by Sophie's beauty and his affectionate memories of their shared childhood, but she is nothing like the vision of angelic domesticity Max was expecting. Mischievous, willful, and daring, Sophie gambles recklessly and rides horses like a man. Both women have Max in thrall-- one with her youth and passion, the other with her wisdom and fierce intelligence. Out of his depth, Max finds himself precariously balanced between Sophie and the Sibyl. What's more, Sophie worships the great novelist of questionable morals and is determined to meet her. 600 10 $a Eliot, George, $d 1819-1880 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Triangles (Interpersonal relations) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a English literature $y 19th century $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History $y Victoria, 1837-1901 $v Fiction. 941 $a 6 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240202022007.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012023724.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006090326.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171228020012.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418110751.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826114504.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=595B937247CB11E598A1CBA4DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b UIBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search