The Marvels
About this book
Told in two stand-alone stories, the first nearly 400 pages of continuous pictures, and the second in text. In 1766, a boy, Billy Marvel, is shipwrecked, rescued, and goes on to found a brilliant family of actors that flourishes in London until 1900--and nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis, runs away from home, seeking refuge with his uncle in London, and is captivated by the Marvel house, with its portraits and ghostly presences.
Subjects
- actors
- actors and actresses
- actors and actresses, fiction
- adventure and adventurers
- adventure and adventurers, fiction
- adventure fiction
- adventure stories
- aids (disease)
- children's fiction
- conservation and restoration
- domestic architecture
- families
- family, fiction
- family life
- family life, fiction
- fiction
- gay men
- history
- juvenile fiction
- london (england), history, fiction
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:childrens-middle-grade-hardcover=2015-10-04
- patients
- pictorial works
- recluses
- runaway children
- shipwreck survival
- theater
- theater, fiction
- theaters