In bohemian Paris, an artists' model falls under the hypnotic control of the sinister musician Svengali. Du Maurier's romance that gave the language a byword for manipulation.
Books mentioned in Trilby (7)
Inferno by Dante Alighieri: “reads Mr. Rudyard Kipling's delightful stories as well as Dante's "Inferno"”
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: “A--a--it's the _Origin of Species_, by Charles Darwin. I'm very f-f-fond of it. I'm reading it for the third time....”
Silas Marner by George Eliot: “with _Silas Marner_, and Darwin's _Origin of Species_ (which he was reading for the third time), and _Punch_”
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: “Then Mrs. Bagot, as a reward for such winning docility, would read her _David Copperfield_, and that was heavenly indeed!”
Quentin Durward by Walter Scott: “like Quentin Durward, this d'Artagnan was a Scotsman”
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens: “putting his forefinger to the side of his nose, like Noah Claypole in _Oliver Twist_.”
The Cup by Alfred Tennyson: “not even Miss Ellen Terry as the priestess of Artemis in the late Laureate's play, "The Cup."”