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Two newly immortal spirits cross the stars while one explains how every word and action continues to shape the universe.
A narrator studying a famously irresistible man finds the strongest clue to his charm in a woman’s portrait at home.
An aging actress welcomes a traveler into the flower-covered villa where she lives with portraits of the men who loved her.
In a quiet Paris garden, a young law student befriends two forgotten dancers who still inhabit the manners of another century.
A wandering painter befriends an eccentric Englishwoman on the Normandy coast and discovers the feeling beneath her reserve.
In a fashionable Paris salon, the privilege of cutting a brioche marks favor, rivalry, and the changing fortunes of its celebrated hostess.
On a bright beach, a painter walks beside his disabled wife while a friend tells the harsh story behind their silent marriage.
A shy novice becomes a theater critic and finds the stage’s poses and speeches steadily replacing his own personality.
A grieving prince builds an ever more magnificent monument to his lost queen, refining it until devotion and art become hard to separate.
A mediocre painter watches his portrait acquire a devilish expression—and then hears the canvas criticize his art.
Over whisky, a taxidermist boasts that preserving nature is only the beginning of his art—and explains how easily collectors can be fooled.
A self-proclaimed 228-year-old gentleman recalls evenings with Samuel Johnson, Boswell, and their sharp-tongued London circle.
An art critic visits a missing painter's secret studio and learns why his monsters look more convincing than ordinary imagination can explain.
An impoverished student becomes obsessed with the strange nightly music of a mute viol player on a street missing from every map.
A young singer crosses many lands searching for the beautiful city he remembers, hoping to find people who understand his songs.
Two men debate whether any horror is truly beyond description while sitting beside the grave linked to a local legend.
Reuniting with an old friend makes a Dublin clerk question the life and ambitions he has settled for.
Fifine takes her father's old fiddle to a plantation party, hoping it can help feed her family.
Bertie travels to New York to rescue his cousin from a vaudeville romance, only to find Gussie aiming for a spot onstage himself.
Aunt Agatha asks Bertie to look after an English visitor in New York, then warns him to keep the young man away from the stage.
An artist needs his wealthy uncle's approval to marry, so Bertie brings in Jeeves to find a way past the man's stubbornness.
In a crime-free future, a pulp writer discovers that a perfect society has left him dangerously short of material.
In a future that has abolished fear, graveyards, and the literature of horror, the last man from the dead rises to make the world afraid again.
A Venus-bound rocket crew blunders into battle in a delirious send-up of space-adventure pulp.
