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Like the first volume, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II (DC Comics; 224 pages), is set in England in the 1890s and features an all-star supergroup culled from the pages of late-Victorian pulp fiction. Among the characters are Captain Nemo (the mariner of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Dr. Jekyll and his monstrous alter ego, Mr. Hyde, and the sinister protagonist of The Invisible Man (another terrible movie). Writer Alan Moore and illustrator Kevin O'Neill pit them against the invading Martians of Wells' The War of the Worlds in a battle royal for the fate...
...Willows and the talking rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, as well as--this is virtuosity in action, folks--the real-life 19th century painter Gustave Moreau. What could have been just a satisfyingly dark thriller becomes a sharp-witted gloss on the scientific and sexual obsessions of Victorian society...
...house—a gray, three-story, late nineteenth-century Victorian building located at 1124 Mass. Ave.—sold for $940,000, according to former owner Walter G. Guffey. When the house went on the market in April, it was listed at $1.495 million...
...trademark touches: classic stories boldly re-imagined, with plenty of movie references, strong veins of visual humour (in Nutcracker, now playing in Sadler's Wells, the dancing cream cake is hilariously reinvented as Rudolf Valentino), a touching sense of vulnerability (the same show has Clara in a frightening Victorian orphanage) and plenty of sex (2000's The Car Man had some very steamy things happening on car bonnets). Those qualities have made Bourne, 43, that rarest of things, a choreographer whose name sells tickets. Witness his confectionery-colored Nutcracker's blockbuster 15-week U.K. tour, and new eight-week Christmas...
...Middleton, Wis., which launched the American Girl brand via catalog in 1986. "We're saying, 'Find a friend, and learn everything you can about her and that pivotal point in history.'" This has proved to be a lucrative proposition. To learn everything about, say, Samantha, American Girl's Victorian-era doll, you can buy her complete collection--her books, furniture, clothing and accessories...