![]() An acquaintance from Max's childhood, she comes from a German family of great wealth. ![]() The Sibyl proves to be as enthralling and intelligent as her books, bewitching Max and all of those around her.īut Wolfgang has an ulterior motive for Max's visit he wants his brother to consider the beautiful eighteen-year-old Countess Sophie von Hahn as a potential wife. Max is as fond of gambling and brothels as Wolfgang is of making a profit and berating his spendthrift brother, but Max is given a chance to prove his worth by visiting the Sibyl and her not-quite-husband Lewes, to finalize the publishing rights to her new novel. In Berlin, Max Duncker and his brother, Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business, which owes its success to one woman: the Sibyl, or Mary Ann Evans, better known as George Eliot, who is writing the final installment of her bestselling serial Middlemarch. ![]()
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