Barbara Ewing: The Mesmerist
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: London, 1838: the controversial practice of Mesmerism, with its genuine practitioners and its fraudulent chancers, has hypnotised the city. Miss Cordelia Preston, a beautiful, ageing, out-of-work actress terrified of returning to the poverty of her childhood, suddenly emerges as a Lady Phreno-Mesmerist. In her candle-lit Bloomsbury basement she learns to harness her talent — and to finally look…