The Marvels

By Brian Selznick

Subjects: Gay men, Adventure fiction, Patients, Domestic architecture, Conservation and restoration, Family life, fiction, Adventure stories, Actors and actresses, nyt:childrens-middle-grade-hardcover=2015-10-04, Runaway children, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Families, Shipwreck survival, New York Times bestseller, Actors and actresses, fiction, Theater, Pictorial works, London (england), history, fiction, AIDS (Disease), Theater, fiction, Recluses, New York Times reviewed, Theaters, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Actors, Family, fiction, History, Adventure and adventurers, Family life

Description: 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.