The Marvels

(September 2015)

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Brian Selznick

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You either see it or you don't.

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This book belongs to:

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The Marvels

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1766 (Table of Contents: 7)

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Brian Selznick (credited)

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Brian Selznick (credited)

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Brian Selznick

Genre

drama

Characters

Marcus Marvel (the elder); Billy Marvel; Tar (dog); seamen; theatre company; Marcus Marvel (the younger); Catherine Marvel; Alexander Marvel; Oberon Marvel; Eleanora Marvel; Leontes Marvel

Synopsis

Seamen put on a play in which Marcus is an angel; when the ship sinks, Billy gets Marcus to an island, where Marcus dies. The rescued boy joins a theatre, and an artist paints Marcus as an angel in the dome. Billy rescues a foundling who becomes an actor, and founds a line of actors. But Alexander Marvel becomes a recluse in hiding beneath the theatre and known only to his grandson Leontes, whom he encourages in his passion for art rather than theatre. In the 1900 Leontes is about to run away when the theatre catches fire. He rushes into the flames in hopes of saving his grandfather.

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Actors; angel; fire; hermit; London; mime story; recluse; shipwreck; theater; theatre; wordless

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Presented as a wordless story, apart from occasional news clippings and the like.

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Brian Selznick

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Joseph Jervis; Albert Nightingale; Frankie; Blink; Mrs. Bloom; Mr. Bloom; Marcus Bloom; Billy Marvel; Tar (dog)

Synopsis

Joseph runs away from boarding school to find mysterious Uncle Albert, who proves reclusive and cryptic; his house is a curio whose arrangements must never be disturbed. Joseph finds and pores over the puzzling sketchbook story of the Marvels. Albert reveals that Marcus and Billy are young men who joined him in making a family, but have each passed away; the story was the family history they created. Joseph returns to school but is called home as Albert nears death. As his mother plans to sell the house, he realizes he needs to make his own story from the book's blank final pages.

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AIDS; boarding school; family; HIV; homosexuality; London; museum; runaway; theater; theatre

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Brian Selznick (credited)

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Brian Selznick

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Joseph; George; Albert (the younger)

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As a grown man, Joseph lives in the house with his partner George, and a baby named for Uncle Albert.

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Baby

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Wim Wenders (credited)

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Is this a true story?

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Afterword

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Much of this book is loosely based on the lives of two real people, Dennis Severs and David Milne.

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Dennis Severs (Table of Contents: 16)

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Gavin Stamp (signed)

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London

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Obituary from The Guardian January 10, 2000.

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Brian Selznick

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Everything written here is accurate and quite uncanny, except for the last two paragraphs.

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Roelof Bakker (photograph)

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Brian Selznick

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This book is dedicated to David Milne and David Serlin and to the memory of Dannis Severs

"Copyright © 2015 by Brian Selznick" (Table of Contents: 20)

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Back matter

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Back cover -- a blue field with a gold border

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Brian Selznick

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Joseph Jervis

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